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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Students in statistics or data science usually learn early on that when the sample size n is large relative to the number of variables p, ...