In certain multivariate problems the full probability density has an awkward normalizing constant, but the conditional and/or marginal distributions may be much more tractable. In this paper we ...

Applied Statistics of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society was founded in 1952. It promotes papers that are driven by real life problems and that make a novel contribution to the subject.

Figure 1: Likelihood-based methods are less accurate than maximum parsimony (MP) under heterogeneous conditions. Figure 2: Parsimony outperforms likelihood over a wide range of heterotachous ...

The great expansion of population genetic data using molecular techniques now allows examination of the extent of linkage disequilibrium for many pairs of loci, each locus often with multiple alleles.