This gives a fictitious example of a sample of 7814 bacteria comprising of 144 unique species. Designed as a test dataset for the DivE diversity estimation algorithm.
The performance of modFit (package FME) with the pseudorandom parameter search algorithm (package FME, pseudoOptim) used to estimated model parameter values, is sensitive to the choice of initial seeding values. We have provided the fitted parameters returned from our simulations to be used as initial seeding parameters.