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New coins from old: computing with unknown bias
Elchanan Mossel, Yuval Peres
Suppose that we are given a function f : (0,1) -> (0,1) and, for some unknown p in (0,1), a sequence of independent tosses of a p-coin (i.e., a coin with probability p of ``heads''…
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Phase transitions in Phylogeny
Elchanan Mossel
We apply the theory of markov random fields on trees to derive a phase transition in the number of samples needed in order to reconstruct phylogenies. We consider the Cavender-Farr…