There are more groups than coalescent nodes in the tree

[richelbilderbeek]

validate and intialize error: There are more groups than coalescent nodes in the tree.

Error detected about here:
  <beast>
      <run id='mcmc' spec='MCMC'>
          <distribution id='posterior' spec='util.CompoundDistribution'>
              <distribution id='prior' spec='util.CompoundDistribution'>
                  <distribution id='BayesianSkyline.t:anthus_aco_sub' spec='BayesianSkyline'>

bad.txt

[richelbilderbeek]

This is an older error, it can be solved somehow in the Initialization tab in BEAUti

[richelbilderbeek]

Here, dimensions should be more than 5, as there are 5 taxa:

[richelbilderbeek]

Fails:

bad.txt

Fixed:

bad_fixed.txt

Diff:

richel@winloos:~$ diff bad_again.xml bad_fixed.xml 
42c42
<         <stateNode id="bGroupSizes.t:anthus_aco_sub" spec="parameter.IntegerParameter" dimension="5">1</stateNode>
---
>         <stateNode id="bGroupSizes.t:anthus_aco_sub" spec="parameter.IntegerParameter" dimension="4">1</stateNode>

So, bGroupSizes's dimension must be n_taxa - 1?