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. 2018 Sep 14;19:324. doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2347-3

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Graphical representation of the relationships between parameters and the data. Parameters in a black box are fixed. Parameters in a red box are marginalized out. The vector (y1,…,yn) is the sample, and “SD” stands for standard deviation. We denote the within-cluster phylogenies τ1(w),,τk(w), k being the number of clusters, and the between-cluster phylogeny, τ(b). Within-cluster phylogenies are degenerate when they support a cluster of size 1, while the between-cluster phylogeny is degenerate when the sample comprises only one cluster. The log-normal prior distribution for the between-cluster branch lengths is reparameterized in such a way that it has mean and standard deviation parameters, like in the normal distribution