Identifiability of the Rooted Tree Parameter under the Cavender-Farris-Neyman Model with a Molecular Clock

no code implementations • 21 Mar 2023 • Jane Ivy Coons, Benjamin Hollering

Identifiability of the discrete tree parameter is a key property for phylogenetic models since it is necessary for statistically consistent estimation of the tree from sequence data.

Generalized Cut Polytopes for Binary Hierarchical Models

1 code implementation • 31 Jul 2020 • Jane Ivy Coons, Joseph Cummings, Benjamin Hollering, Aida Maraj

Marginal polytopes are important geometric objects that arise in statistics as the polytopes underlying hierarchical log-linear models.

Combinatorics Statistics Theory Statistics Theory 52B12, 52B20, 52B40, 52B35