Relatedness between individuals is central to ecological genetics. Multiple methods are available to quantify relatedness from molecular data, including method-of-moment and maximum-likelihood ...

Maximum likelihood (ML) provides a powerful and extremely general method for making inferences over a wide range of data/model combinations. The likelihood function and likelihood ratios have clear ...

Let X₁, ..., X n be independent and identically distributed random vectors with a (Lebesgue) density f. We first prove that, with probability 1, there is a unique ...