An efficient algorithm is presented for solving a general class of mathematical programming problems. This class includes the specific task of finding a maximum likelihood ranking based on paired ...

In multiple change-point problems, different data segments often follow different distributions, for which the changes may occur in the mean, scale or the entire distribution from one segment to ...

Haplotype frequency estimation in population data is an important problem in genetics and different methods including expectation maximisation (EM) methods have been proposed. The statistical ...