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tgvaughan / MultiTypeTree

BEAST 2 package which provides support for multi-type trees: phylogenetic trees on structured populations.
http://tgvaughan.github.io/MultiTypeTree
GNU General Public License v3.0
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How many states for MultiTypeTree at most? #15

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

@tgvaughan How many states for MultiTypeTree at most? 4 ? Thanks.

tgvaughan commented 3 years ago

There's no limit in principle, although 4-5 seems to be the practical limit without additional constraints on the migration matrix. (Informative priors can help a lot here. If the number of degrees of freedom in the migration matrix and Ne vectors can be kept low, you can include many more demes.)