What do a river, earthquakes and the internet have in common? If you asked statistics professor Ilya Zaliapin, he would tell you the answer is tree graphs (or, simply – trees). “Research-wise, I am ...

Earth holds roughly 3.04 trillion trees, outnumbering the Milky Way’s estimated 100 billion stars by a factor of about thirty ...

Tree-based statistical models offer a flexible, data-driven approach to analysing repeated measurements collected over time. By partitioning subjects into subgroups with distinct trajectories or ...

Biological researchers face an explosion of data arising from human genome projects and recent high throughput experiments. There are many traditional techniques for analyzing data, including ...