Simulated trees or sets of trees are commonly used in testing estimation routines of branching process models. Simulation of a phylogeny conditioned on number of tips involves some subtlety (Stadler 2011 ); an R package is dedicated to this task alone (TreeSim).
How do we express that a tree has been generated in this way, rather than inferred from a character matrix? Is it necessary to distinguish more broadly between simulated data and "real" data?
Simulated trees or sets of trees are commonly used in testing estimation routines of branching process models. Simulation of a phylogeny conditioned on number of tips involves some subtlety (Stadler 2011 ); an R package is dedicated to this task alone (TreeSim).
How do we express that a tree has been generated in this way, rather than inferred from a character matrix? Is it necessary to distinguish more broadly between simulated data and "real" data?