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Data from: Properties of Markov chain Monte Carlo performance across many empirical alignments -- part I

<p>Nearly all current Bayesian phylogenetic applications rely on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods to approximate the posterior distribution for trees and other parameters of the model. These approximations are only reliable if Markov chains adequately converge and sample from the joint posterior distribution. While several studies of phylogenetic MCMC convergence exist, these have focused on simulated datasets or select empirical examples. Therefore, much that is considered common knowledge about MCMC in empirical systems derives from a relatively small family of analyses under ideal conditions. To address this, we present an overview of commonly applied phylogenetic MCMC diagnostics and an assessment of patterns of these diagnostics across more than 18,000 empirical analyses. Many analyses appeared to perform well and failures in convergence were most likely to be detected using the average standard deviation of split frequencies, a diagnostic that compares topologies among independent chains. Different diagnostics yielded different information about failed convergence, demonstrating that multiple diagnostics must be employed to reliably detect problems. The number of taxa and average branch lengths in analyses have clear impacts on MCMC performance, with more taxa and shorter branches leading to more difficult convergence. We show that the usage of models that include both Γ-distributed among-site rate variation and a proportion of invariable sites are not broadly problematic for MCMC convergence but are also unnecessary. Changes to heating and the usage of model-averaged substitution models can both offer improved convergence in some cases, but neither are a panacea.</p>

opencc-zeroNov 2020View details →
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Data from: Properties of Markov chain Monte Carlo performance across many empirical alignments --part II

<p>Nearly all current Bayesian phylogenetic applications rely on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods to approximate the posterior distribution for trees and other parameters of the model. These approximations are only reliable if Markov chains adequately converge and sample from the joint posterior distribution. While several studies of phylogenetic MCMC convergence exist, these have focused on simulated datasets or select empirical examples. Therefore, much that is considered common knowledge about MCMC in empirical systems derives from a relatively small family of analyses under ideal conditions. To address this, we present an overview of commonly applied phylogenetic MCMC diagnostics and an assessment of patterns of these diagnostics across more than 18,000 empirical analyses. Many analyses appeared to perform well and failures in convergence were most likely to be detected using the average standard deviation of split frequencies, a diagnostic that compares topologies among independent chains. Different diagnostics yielded different information about failed convergence, demonstrating that multiple diagnostics must be employed to reliably detect problems. The number of taxa and average branch lengths in analyses have clear impacts on MCMC performance, with more taxa and shorter branches leading to more difficult convergence. We show that the usage of models that include both Γ-distributed among-site rate variation and a proportion of invariable sites are not broadly problematic for MCMC convergence but are also unnecessary. Changes to heating and the usage of model-averaged substitution models can both offer improved convergence in some cases, but neither are a panacea.</p>

opencc-zeroNov 2020View details →
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Data from: Properties of Markov chain Monte Carlo performance across many empirical alignments --part II

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publicNov 2020View details →
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Data from: Properties of Markov chain Monte Carlo performance across many empirical alignments -- part I

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publicNov 2020View details →
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Author Name Disambiguation using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

<p>This repository contains the files processed from the <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5675801#.Y2APcOzMJhE">Aminer-534K</a> Knowledge graph for the master&#39;s thesis on Author Name Disambiguation.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Oct 2022View details →
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Data from: Bayesian adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation of genetic parameters

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publicMay 2012View details →
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Bayesian Statistics and Markov Chain Monte Carlo

<p>Recording of the presentation given at the Summer School</p>

opencc-by-4.0Oct 2022View details →
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Data from: An efficient independence sampler for updating branches in Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling of phylogenetic trees

Sampling tree space is the most challenging aspect of Bayesian phylogenetic inference. The sheer number of alternative topologies is problematic by itself. In addition, the complex dependency between branch lengths and topology increases the difficulty of moving efficiently among topologies. Current tree proposals are fast but sample new trees using primitive transformations or re-mappings of old branch lengths. This reduces acceptance rates and presumably slows down convergence and mixing. Here, we explore branch proposals that do not rely on old branch lengths but instead are based on approximations of the conditional posterior. Using a diverse set of empirical data sets, we show that most conditional branch posteriors can be accurately approximated via a Γ distribution. We empirically determine the relationship between the logarithmic conditional posterior density, its derivatives, and the characteristics of the branch posterior. We use these relationships to derive an independence sampler for proposing branches with an acceptance ratio of ∼90% on most data sets. This proposal samples branches between 2× and 3× more efficiently than traditional proposals with respect to the effective sample size per unit of runtime. We also compare the performance of standard topology proposals with hybrid proposals that use the new independence sampler to update those branches that are most affected by the topological change. Our results show that hybrid proposals can sometimes noticeably decrease the number of generations necessary for topological convergence. Inconsistent performance gains indicate that branch updates are not the limiting factor in improving topological convergence for the currently employed set of proposals. However, our independence sampler might be essential for the construction of novel tree proposals that apply more radical topology changes.

opencc-zeroDec 2014View details →
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Data from: An efficient independence sampler for updating branches in Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling of phylogenetic trees

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MESA files for paper "Progenitor properties of type II supernovae: fitting to hydrodynamical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods"

<p>Inlists to reproduce the pre-SN simulations of the paper &quot;Progenitor properties of type II supernovae: fitting to hydrodynamical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods&quot;. These simulations were performed using MESA version 10398.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Aug 2020View details →
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Supplementary data for: "Progenitor properties of type II supernovae: fitting to hydrodynamical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods"

<p>This entry contains a grid of bolometric light curve and photospheric velocity models applied to stellar evolution progenitors. A full description of the models can be found in Martinez et al. 2020, A&amp;A, 642, A143.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Feb 2022View details →

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