I have studied bootstrapping and Bayesian methods in phylogenetic analysis.

Papers in the area

• Bob Mau, M.A. Newton, and Bret Larget (1999). Bayesian phylogenetic inference via Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. Biometrics 55 234-249.

• M.A. Newton, Bob Mau, and Bret Larget (1999). Markov chain Monte Carlo for the Bayesian analysis of evolutionary trees from aligned molecular sequences. In F. Seillier-Moseiwitch (Ed.), Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics. IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, 33 , 143-162.

• Bob Mau and M.A. Newton (1997). Phylogenetic inference for binary data on dendograms using Markov chain Monte Carlo. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 6 , 122-131. (Student paper prize, Statistical Computing Section of ASA, 1996).

• M.A. Newton (1996). Bootstrapping phylogenies: Large deviations and dispersion effects. Biometrika 83 315--328. (G.W. Snedecor Award, 1997).