PBD: Protracted Birth-Death Model of Diversification

Conducts maximum likelihood analysis and simulation of the protracted birth-death model of diversification. See Etienne, R.S. & J. Rosindell 2012 <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syr091>; Lambert, A., H. Morlon & R.S. Etienne 2014, <doi:10.1007/s00285-014-0767-x>; Etienne, R.S., H. Morlon & A. Lambert 2014, <doi:10.1111/evo.12433>.

Version: 1.6
Depends: R (≥ 3.0.2)
Imports: deSolve, ade4, ape, DDD, Matrix, phytools, graphics, stats, testit, utils
LinkingTo: Rcpp (≥ 1.0.10), RcppEigen, BH (≥ 1.81.0-1)
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
Published: 2026-09-04
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.PBD
Author: Rampal S. Etienne ORCID iD [aut, cre], Bart Haegeman ORCID iD [aut], Richèl J.C. Bilderbeek ORCID iD [ctb], Thijs Janzen ORCID iD [ctb], Raphael Scherrer ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Rampal S. Etienne <r.s.etienne at rug.nl>
BugReports: https://github.com/rsetienne/PBD/issues
License: GPL-2
URL: https://github.com/rsetienne/PBD
NeedsCompilation: yes
In views: Phylogenetics
CRAN checks: PBD results

Documentation:

Reference manual: PBD.html , PBD.pdf
Vignettes: pbd_ML demo (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: PBD_1.6.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: PBD_1.4.zip, r-release: PBD_1.4.zip, r-oldrel: PBD_1.4.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): PBD_1.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): PBD_1.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): PBD_1.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): PBD_1.4.tgz
Old sources: PBD archive

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