This project aims to clarify the phylogenetic relationships among the extant species of Varanus in order to elucidate the origins of Varanidae, using DNA sequences. Results obtained for a minimum of 662 nucleotides of 12S rRNA sequence data from each of 21 extant species of Varanus indicate that the Australian varanids form a single monophyletic clade and also suggest that within the Australian...

This article presents certain recent methodologies and some new results for the statistical analysis of probability distributions on manifolds. An important example considered in some detail here is the 2-D shape space of k-ads, comprising all configurations of k planar landmarks (k > 2)-modulo translation, scaling and rotation.

In this tutorial paper we give an overview of deconvolution problems in nonparametric statistics. First, we consider the problem of density estimation given a contaminated sample. We illustrate that the classical Rosenblatt-Parzen kernel density estimator is unable to capture the full shape of the density while the presented method experiences almost no problems. Second, we use the previous est...