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 ...

The scope of application of iteratively reweighted least squares to statistical estimation problems is considerably wider than is generally appreciated. It extends beyond the exponential-family-type ...

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 ...