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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A review is given of recent work on maximum likelihood theory for continuously observed processes of the diffusion type. A brief survey of ...

Identify characteristics of “good” estimators and be able to compare competing estimators. Construct sound estimators using the techniques of maximum likelihood and method of moments estimation.

Maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of a statistical model involves maximizing the likelihood or, equivalently, the log likelihood with respect to the parameters. The parameter values at ...

This example calculates confidence intervals based on the profile likelihood for the parameters estimated in the previous example. The following introduction on profile-likelihood methods is based on ...