GEIGER: investigating evolutionary radiations

Luke J. Harmon, Jason T. Weir, Chad D. Brock, Richard E. Glor, Wendell Challenger

Bioinformatics · 2007 · 2.5K citations · 17 references

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GEIGER is a new R package designed to model evolutionary radiations. It performs simulations, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, and can assess the statistical power of comparative methods. The software is freely available on CRAN. Contact: lukeh@uidaho.edu.

Abstract

Abstract Summary: GEIGER is a new software package, written in the R language, to describe evolutionary radiations. GEIGER can carry out simulations, parameter estimation and statistical hypothesis testing. Additionally, GEIGER's simulation algorithms can be used to analyze the statistical power of comparative approaches. Availability: This open source software is written entirely in the R language and is freely available through the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) at http://cran.r-project.org/. Contact: lukeh@uidaho.edu

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