Simulated Phylogenetic Trees for BAMM Method Validation

Data from Daniel L. Rabosky supports a rebuttal to critiques of the BAMM macroevolutionary analysis software. It includes simulated phylogenies used to assess the performance of BAMM in estimating diversification rate variation. The dataset underpins a methodological debate in evolutionary biology.

Use Cases

• Validate BAMM's diversification rate estimates on simulated phylogenies with known rate shifts.
• Assess the sensitivity of BAMM's posterior distribution on the number of rate shifts to prior specifications.
• Replicate performance assessments of BAMM using the simulated trees from the rebuttal analysis.
• Compare inferred macroevolutionary dynamics against the ground-truth parameters of the simulation.

Strengths

• Data is central to a peer-reviewed scientific debate on a major methodological tool in macroevolution.
• Associated with a clear rebuttal publication addressing specific theoretical and practical claims.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license for unrestricted use.

Limitations

• The exact structure, format, and size of the data files are unspecified.
• Content is limited to simulated phylogenetic trees and associated analysis outputs, not empirical biological data.
• The dataset's utility is highly specialized for the BAMM software validation debate.

Provenance

Source

Daniel L. Rabosky

Collection Method

Generated via simulation for the purpose of validating the BAMM software against published critiques.

Freshness

Last updated in June 2020.