Many methods have been proposed to reconstruct the pedigree of a sample of individuals from their multilocus marker genotypes. These methods, like those in other fields of statistical inferences, may ...
The rapid accumulation of genome sequence data has made phylogenetics an indispensable tool to various branches of biology. However, it has also posed considerable statistical and computational ...
The advantages of formulating the parameter estimation problem in terms of pivotal quantities p(x, θ) are pointed out. A pivotal p is stable in mean and variance if its mean m and variance v are fixed ...