# Multivariate Comparative Tools for Fitting Evolutionary Models to Morphometric Data

## Documentation for package ‘mvMORPH’ version 1.1.0

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

## Help Pages

mvMORPH-package | Multivariate Comparative Methods for Fitting Evolutionary Models to Morphometric Data
aicw | Akaike weights
coef.mvgls | Extract multivariate gls model coefficients
estim | Ancestral states reconstructions and missing value imputation with phylogenetic/time-series models
fitted.mvgls | Extract multivariate gls model fitted values
GIC | Generalized Information Criterion (GIC) to compare models fit with 'mvgls' by Maximum Likelihood (ML) or Penalized Likelihood (PL).
halflife | The phylogenetic half-life for an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
LRT | Likelihood Ratio Test
mv.Precalc | Model parameterization for the various mvMORPH functions
mvBM | Multivariate Brownian Motion models of continuous traits evolution
mvEB | Multivariate Early Burst model of continuous traits evolution
mvgls | Fit linear model using Generalized Least Squares to multivariate (high-dimensional) data sets.
mvgls.pca | Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based on GLS estimate of the traits variance-covariance matrix (possibly regularized).
mvLL | Multivariate (and univariate) algorithms for log-likelihood estimation of arbitrary covariance matrix/trees
mvMORPH | Multivariate Comparative Methods for Fitting Evolutionary Models to Morphometric Data
mvOU | Multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model of continuous traits evolution
mvOUTS | Multivariate continuous trait evolution for a stationary time series (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model)
mvRWTS | Multivariate Brownian motion / Random Walk model of continuous traits evolution on time series
mvSHIFT | Multivariate change in mode of continuous trait evolution
mvSIM | Simulation of (multivariate) continuous traits on a phylogeny
pruning | Pruning algorithm to compute the square root of the phylogenetic covariance matrix and it's determinant.
residuals.mvgls | Extract gls model residuals
stationary | The stationary variance of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
vcov.mvgls | Calculate variance-covariance matrix for a fitted object of class 'mvgls'