Tracing the lineage history of cells is key to answering diverse and fundamental questions in
biology. Coupling of cell ancestry information with other molecular readouts represents an …

Diversity indices are useful single-number metrics for characterizing a complex distribution
of a set of attributes across a population of interest. The utility of these different metrics or …

An underlying question for virtually all single-cell RNA sequencing experiments is how to
allocate the limited sequencing budget: deep sequencing of a few cells or shallow …

In the design of practical combustion systems, ensuring safety and reliability is an important
requirement. For instance, reliably avoiding lean blowout, flame flashback or inlet unstart is …

We show that a class of statistical properties of distributions, which includes such practically
relevant properties as entropy, the number of distinct elements, and distance metrics …

We consider the problem of estimating the support size of a discrete distribution whose
minimum nonzero mass is at least 1 k. Under the independent sampling model, we show …

We consider the problem of estimating the L 1 distance between two discrete probability
measures P and Q from empirical data in a nonasymptotic and large alphabet setting. When …

We consider the problem of estimating functionals of discrete distributions, and focus on a
tight (up to universal multiplicative constants for each specific functional) nonasymptotic …

Abstract sBLISS (in-suspension breaks labeling in situ and sequencing) is a versatile and
widely applicable method for identification of endogenous and induced DNA double-strand …

We study the minimax estimation of α-divergences between discrete distributions for integer
α≥ 1, which include the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the χ 2-divergences as special …