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Using Three-color Single-molecule FRET to Study the Correlation of Protein Interactions
Published on: January 30, 2018
Maximum likelihood estimation and natural pairwise estimating equations are identical for three sequences and a
1Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 118, Building 1530, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Abstract:
Consider the problem of estimating the branch lengths in a symmetric 2-state substitution model with a known topology and a general, clock-like or star-shaped tree with three leaves. We show that the maximum likelihood estimates are analytically tractable and can be obtained from pairwise sequence comparisons. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this property does not generalize to larger state spaces, more complex models or larger trees. Our arguments are based on an enumeration of the free parameters of the model and the dimension of the minimal sufficient data vector. Our interest in this problem arose from discussions with our former colleague Freddy Bugge Christiansen.
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