Trait evolution with jumps: illusionary normality

• Phylogenetic comparative methods for real-valued traits usually make use of stochastic process whose trajectories are continuous.This is despite biological intuition that evolution is rather punctuated thangradual. On the other hand, there has been a number of recent proposals of evolutionarymodels with jump components. However, as we are only beginning to understandthe behaviour of branching Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) processes the asymptoticsof branching  OU processes with jumps is an even greater unknown. In thiswork we build up on a previous study concerning OU with jumps evolution on a pure birth tree.We introduce an extinction component and explore via simulations, its effects on the weak convergence of such a process.We furthermore, also use this work to illustrate the simulation and graphic generation possibilitiesof the mvSLOUCH package.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Sannolikhetsteori och statistik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Probability Theory and Statistics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi -- Evolutionsbiologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences -- Evolutionary Biology (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Bioinformatik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Bioinformatics (hsv//eng)

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