Hello all.
Does anyone have any good reference/tutorial regarding selecting appropriate distribution models for priors used for dating calibration? I am interested in using three types of priors, a fossil one, a well known biogeographical (geological) and a very loose biogeographical (geological). I believe that each one of these would require a special kind of settings. I've been reading about the lognormal and normal, but I also do believe that for the loose one, having a "traditional" normal prior would not be the "best" setting.
Kind of related, also any hints on how to make a thoughtful and perhaps more accurate choice of mean and stdev values for these priors?
Thank you very much,
JP
Hey Curintia,
This article explains the types of callibrations in a way that is very easy to understand:
Ho and Phillips (2009) Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times. Syt. Biol.
Cheers,
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