TESS - Diversification Rate Estimation and Fast Simulation of
Reconstructed Phylogenetic Trees under Tree-Wide
Time-Heterogeneous Birth-Death Processes Including
Mass-Extinction Events
Simulation of reconstructed phylogenetic trees under
tree-wide time-heterogeneous birth-death processes and
estimation of diversification parameters under the same model.
Speciation and extinction rates can be any function of time and
mass-extinction events at specific times can be provided. Trees
can be simulated either conditioned on the number of species,
the time of the process, or both. Additionally, the likelihood
equations are implemented for convenience and can be used for
Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation and Bayesian inference.