In article <91r6td$k9j$1 at mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>, Mark Dowton
<mdowton at uow.edu.au> wrote:
> Is it possible yet to do ML analyses (i.e. heuristic or global searches)
> of multi-partition datasets, in which different models are specified for
> each partition (so-called mixed-model analyses)? As far as I can tell,
> this isn't possible with PAUP 4*, but perhaps someone has written
> something specifically for this purpose.
It's impossible with PAUP as currently available. There is such a
capability under development for a future release of PAUP, and I suspect
it may even be incorporated into the final (i.e. non-beta) version of PAUP
4.
Caveat: Don't take what I say as representing Dave Swofford's actual intentions.
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