NEWS

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OUwie 3.01

• Fixed the multiple-alpha (OUMA, OUMVA) calculation. See the Calculation Update vignette.

OUwie 3.0.4

• hOUwie() now starts sigma^2 from the mean squared independent contrast, as OUwie() does, instead of the raw trait variance. On tall trees the old start could drive alpha to its upper bound and stall far below BM1.
• hOUwie() default root.p is now "maddfitz" (was "yang").
• Fixed the OU expected means and variances along paths with more than one alpha, which feed the model-averaged values from getModelAvgParams().
• hOUwie.walk() no longer fails on models without alpha (BM1, BMV).

OUwie 3.0.3 (2026-09-16)

• hOUwie() likelihoods changed for all models (importance sampling replaces the old subset sum; cache bug fixed). Results from 2.x are not comparable and should be refit.