HUNGARIAN CHICKEN SCRATCHINGS
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Mathematics Seminar
“HUNGARIAN CHICKEN SCRATCHINGS
A NEW WEAPON IN THE WAR ON ERROR”
Professor Mike Steel
Director, Biomathematics Research Centre
University of Canterbury
12.00 pm Thursday, 11 August 2005 – ScB3.31
ABSTRACT
Professor Steel is completing a series of three papers with Hungarian collaborator Laszlo Szekely, dealing with information loss in phylogenetics. It will deal with issues related to Maximum Likelihood estimation and admissibility. This will be the first occasion that this material has been presented.