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The last decades have seen an explosion of analytical approaches in biogeography. Amid the plethora of new methods competing for attention, a researcher is expected to get lost. From parsimony-based cladistic and event-based biogeography, we have moved into the expanding world of parametric model-based methods. This chapter mainly focuses on the latter, which are less than a decade old, but I also review previous approaches, as they provide a background on the shifting focus from phylogenetic relationships and Earth history to the integration of other disciplines (ecology, paleontology and population genetics), to understand historical processes that shaped Earth’s biodiversity.