Bayesian estimation methods form a dynamic branch of statistical inference, utilising Bayes’ theorem to update probabilities in light of new evidence. This framework combines prior knowledge with ...

Biologists frequently attempt to infer the character states at ancestral nodes of a phylogeny from the distribution of traits observed in contemporary organisms. Because phylogenies are normally ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 71, No. 1 (Jan., 2009), pp. 159-175 (17 pages) The paper proposes two Bayesian approaches to non-parametric monotone ...