Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Fix to plot method for "phyl.RMA" object class

I just fixed a small bug in the S3 plot method for phyl.RMA.

phyl.RMA does reduced major axis (RMA) regression taking phylogeny into account. The plot method plots a phylomorphospace of the two characters, and overlays both the null hypothesis (to be specified by the user, but defaults to β1 = 1.0) and the fitted RMA regression line.

Here's in example starting with a fitted RMA model:

library(phytools)
obj
## 
## Coefficients:
## (Intercept)           x 
##    3.214059    2.375175 
## 
## VCV matrix:
##             x           y
## x 0.005793694 0.006437997
## y 0.006437997 0.032684872
## 
## Model for the covariance structure of the error is "BM"
## 
## Estimates (or set values):
##    lambda    log(L) 
##    1.0000 -107.8858 
## 
## Hypothesis test based on Clarke (1980; Biometrika):
##        r2         T        df         P 
##  0.218877  8.754613 74.108564  0.000000 
## 
## Note that the null hypothesis test is h0 = 1
plot(obj)

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The fix guarantees that both the null hypothesis & fitted model RMA regression lines pass through the ML reconstructed ancestral state value for the root node of both x & y. (For some reason, this was not the case before - although it should have been.)

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