Inverting Random Functions II: Explicit Bounds for Discrete Maximum Likelihood Estimation, with Applications

DOI10.1137/S089548010138790XzbMath1055.62522OpenAlexW2170920620MaRDI QIDQ4785702

László A. Székely, Mike A. Steel

Publication date: 5 January 2003

Published in: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/s089548010138790x

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationKullback-Leibler distancerandom functionphylogeny reconstruction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Parametric inference (62F99) Nonparametric inference (62G99)

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