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 ...

Relatedness between individuals is central to ecological genetics. Multiple methods are available to quantify relatedness from molecular data, including method-of-moment and maximum-likelihood ...

Kevin Liu, Tandy J. Warnow, Mark T. Holder, Serita M. Nelesen, Jiaye Yu, Alexandros P. Stamatakis and C. Randal Linder Highly accurate estimation of phylogenetic trees for large data sets is difficult ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper rigorously establishes that the existence of the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) in high-dimensional logistic regression models ...