Inverting random functions III: Discrete MLE revisited

Annals of Combinatorics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 365-382

  Steel, Mike A ^a   Székely, László A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Phylogeny reconstruction; Random function

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449526567     PISSN: 02180006     EISSN: 02193094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00026-009-0023-z     Document Type: Article

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