Bayesian estimation and maximum likelihood methods represent two central paradigms in modern statistical inference. Bayesian estimation incorporates prior beliefs through Bayes’ theorem, updating ...
The fitness of plants or animals within a population is largely determined by the number of offspring they produce. In natural populations lacking familial structure either one or both parents are ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 108, No. 19 (May 10, 2011), pp. 7860-7865 (6 pages) The substitution rate in a gene can provide valuable ...