Unpublished Working Notes
William H. Press
These are incomplete works, or parts of future work, that have not yet found their way into formal publications. Some of the content is repetitive, and not all of it may even be correct! These notes may be cited by a reference to this web page, with the words ``W.H. Press (unpublished note)." They are posted here just in case they may prove useful to someone.
Working Notes 2006
Reconstructing the Full Internal State of a Molecular Phylogenetic Tree with Arbitrary, Branch-Dependent Substitution Probabilities (last revised May 1, 2006)Maximizing the Information Rate from Single-Molecule, Motion-Based DNA Sequencing Using RNA Polymerase (last revised August 15, 2006)
Working Notes 2005
Note on Bayesian Screening of Possibly Rare Features for Predictive Value (last revised February 16, 2005)Working Note on Bilinear Prediction of Relatedness (last revised March 28, 2005). I have since learned that this describes a (new?) generalization of what is called in simpler cases ``canonical correlation."
Notes on a Bayesian Framework for Association Studies with Multiple Hypotheses (last revised March 31, 2005)
Note on the Significance of 2x2 Contingency Tables and Lindley's Paradox (last revised April 13, 2005)
``What Is Better Than Chi-Square?" and Related Koans (last revised September 23, 2005)
Working Notes 2004
How to Use Markov Chain Monte Carlo to Do Difficult Integrals (Including Those for Normalizing Constants) (last revised August 9, 2004)
This page still under construction.