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When people discuss evolutionary trends in the literature, they usually mean changes in the mean trait value through time. But in fitContinuous this is called "drift" - which conjures genetic drift and, probably, is confusing to everyone. Then what we call the trend model is a trend in the rate, and is very similar to EB - but there is really no way to know that from the documentation.
This is a bit of a sad state. I suggest changing this but in a way that maintains backwards compatibility with people's code - that is, add two new arguments for these two models that are more intuitive, like meanTrend and rateTrend, and (silently) accept the old arguments as well.
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I made this changes - but called the models "mean_trend" and "rate_trend" while maintaining backward compatibility (that is, "drift" and "trend" are still accepted).
I then went to update the model names in fitContinuousMCMC - but I discovered they are all totally different & gave up!
When people discuss evolutionary trends in the literature, they usually mean changes in the mean trait value through time. But in fitContinuous this is called "drift" - which conjures genetic drift and, probably, is confusing to everyone. Then what we call the trend model is a trend in the rate, and is very similar to EB - but there is really no way to know that from the documentation.
This is a bit of a sad state. I suggest changing this but in a way that maintains backwards compatibility with people's code - that is, add two new arguments for these two models that are more intuitive, like meanTrend and rateTrend, and (silently) accept the old arguments as well.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: