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dsilvestro / PyRate

PyRate is a program to estimate speciation, extinction, and preservation rates from fossil occurrence data using a Bayesian framework.
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How to deal with multiple fossils for the same species, including when they have different MinAge and MaxAge? #36

Closed jamie-thompson closed 1 year ago

jamie-thompson commented 1 year ago

I have multiple examples of the same species in my dataset. Where the MinAge and MaxAge are the same, should I delete duplicates? Where they are different, do I summarise with the youngest MinAge and oldest MaxAge? Sorry if this is explained or obvious.

dsilvestro commented 1 year ago

I would keep them if they come from different localities but remove them as duplicates otherwise. Their ages will be resampled randomly from their min/max age range when you prepare the input file using pyrate_utilities.r. I hope this helps!