Nature

An improvement on the maximum likelihood reconstruction of pedigrees from marker data

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 ...
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Corrigendum: Obtaining Expected Maximum Log Likelihood Estimators

The Statistician joined the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society as its Series D from the journal of the Institute of Statisticians after the merger of the two bodies in 1993. The journal was ...
Nature

Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice

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 ...
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Strong Consistency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Finite Mixtures of Location-Scale Distributions When Penalty is Imposed on the Ratios of the Scale Parameters

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In finite mixtures of location-scale distributions, if there is no constraint or penalty on the parameters, then the maximum likelihood ...