Empirical trees parameter estimation based on simulated trees

“SBFUSED_input.RData” is the main input data that was generated from simulations using the central high-performance computer cluster of ETH Zurich (Brutus) and the R-package TreeSimGM (Hagen, O., Stadler, T. 2013). Inputs from “treebase_output.RData” (that can be found at “data-set_empirical_trees.zip”) are also used, once we use here empirical trees for the fitting. For more details please consult the respective R-package tutorials. All other files are the sub products of the “procedure_rscript.R” script. More details can be found at the methodology section. Figure 3 originates mainly from “SBep_output.RData”, “SBleast.square_output.RData” and “plot_script.R”. We would like to stress that this is not a complete catalogue of all R-scripts used in our study, especially regarding plotting and investigation of model behavior, once much was simulated with a cluster computer involving multiple outputs, code files and csv parameter tables that changed over time. If you plan to run similar experiments, we strongly encourage the reading of our TreeSimGM R-package help material.