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 ...

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 ...

The problem of estimating the relatedness of a pair of biological sequences is addressed. A stochastic model of sequence evolution is described that allows insertion and deletion as well as ...