'Monte carlo markov chain' presentation slideshows

The bootstrap, consenus-trees, and super-trees

Phylogenetics Workhop, 16-18 August 2006. The bootstrap, consenus-trees, and super-trees. Barbara Holland. What is the bootstrap?. Like in many other areas where statistical inference is applied, in phylogenetics it is not just of interest to get a point estimate of the phylogenetic tree.

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Exploring Phylogenetic Data with Splits-Graphs

Phylogenetics Workhop, 16-18 August 2006. Exploring Phylogenetic Data with Splits-Graphs. Barbara Holland. Table 1: North Island road distances. Motivation. When analysing phylogenetic data we usually expect the historical signal to match a tree.

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Towards Efficient Sampling: Exploiting Random Walk Strategy

Towards Efficient Sampling: Exploiting Random Walk Strategy. Wei Wei, Jordan Erenrich, and Bart Selman. Motivations. Recent years have seen tremendous improvements in SAT solving. Formulas with up to 300 variables (1992) to formulas with one million variables. Various techniques for answering

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Sampling Combinatorial Space Using Biased Random Walks

Sampling Combinatorial Space Using Biased Random Walks. Jordan Erenrich, Wei Wei and Bart Selman Dept. of Computer Science Cornell University. Many forms of probabilistic reasoning can be effectively reduced to sampling satisfying assignments from a Boolean formula (an instance of SAT).

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