Bayesian estimation and maximum likelihood methods represent two central paradigms in modern statistical inference. Bayesian estimation incorporates prior beliefs through Bayes’ theorem, updating ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 30, No. 2 (1981), pp. 116-124 (9 pages) This paper develops a maximum likelihood method for estimating a piecewise ...

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 ...