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07/28/2022
Expanding the class of global objective functions for dissimilarity-based hierarchical clustering
Recent work on dissimilarity-based hierarchical clustering has led to th...
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07/25/2022
Pairwise sequence alignment at arbitrarily large evolutionary distance
Ancestral sequence reconstruction is a key task in computational biology...
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08/06/2021
Estimating Graph Dimension with Cross-validated Eigenvalues
In applied multivariate statistics, estimating the number of latent dime...
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10/27/2020
Impossibility of phylogeny reconstruction from k-mer counts
We consider phylogeny estimation under a two-state model of sequence evo...
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07/13/2020
Species tree estimation under joint modeling of coalescence and duplication: sample complexity of quartet methods
We consider species tree estimation under a standard stochastic model of...
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12/20/2018
On the variance of internode distance under the multispecies coalescent
We consider the problem of estimating species trees from unrooted gene t...
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12/04/2018
Reducing Seed Bias in Respondent-Driven Sampling by Estimating Block Transition Probabilities
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a popular approach to study marginal...
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08/31/2018
Asymptotic Seed Bias in Respondent-driven Sampling
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) collects a sample of individuals in a n...
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03/07/2018
Long-branch attraction in species tree estimation: inconsistency of partitioned likelihood and topology-based summary methods
With advances in sequencing technologies, there are now massive amounts ...
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12/13/2017
Geometry of the sample frequency spectrum and the perils of demographic inference
The sample frequency spectrum (SFS), which describes the distribution of...
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08/08/2017
Critical threshold for ancestral reconstruction by maximum parsimony on general phylogenies
We consider the problem of inferring an ancestral state from observation...
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07/18/2017
Efficient and consistent inference of ancestral sequences in an evolutionary model with insertions and deletions under dense taxon sampling
In evolutionary biology, the speciation history of living organisms is r...
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04/22/2017
Species tree estimation using ASTRAL: how many genes are enough?
Species tree reconstruction from genomic data is increasingly performed ...
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