Improved Error Bounds for Genetic Distances from Dna Sequences

DOI10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.01064.xzbMath1059.62676WikidataQ73789888 ScholiaQ73789888MaRDI QIDQ4668307

Michael J. Prentice, Frank W. Wright, Gráinne McGuire

Publication date: 18 April 2005

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervals; saddlepoint approximation; Markov models; DNS; distance estimators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F25: Parametric tolerance and confidence regions

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

60J20: Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.)

92D10: Genetics and epigenetics

Cites Work

• Least squares estimation of molecular distance. Noise abatement in phylogenetic reconstruction
• Saddlepoint methods and statistical inference. With comments and a rejoinder by the author
• General Saddlepoint Approximations of Marginal Densities and Tail Probabilities
• General Saddlepoint Approximations with Applications to L Statistics
• Saddlepoint Approximations of Marginal Densities and Confidence Intervals in the Logistic Regression Measurement Error Model
• Tail Probability Approximations
• A Test of the Markovian Model of DNA Evolution
• Saddlepoint Approximations in Statistics