The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 1567-1590 (24 pages) We study in detail asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimators of parameters when observations are taken from ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Spatial linear models and the corresponding likelihood-based statistical inference are important tools for the analysis of spatial lattice ...

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 great expansion of population genetic data using molecular techniques now allows examination of the extent of linkage disequilibrium for many pairs of loci, each locus often with multiple alleles.