The relationship between speciation times and the corresponding times of gene divergence is of interest in phylogenetic inference as a means of understanding the past evolutionary dynamics of populations and of estimating the timing of speciation events. It has long been recognized that gene...

type="main" xml:id="jtsa12072-abs-0001"The problem of non-parametric spectral density estimation for discrete-time series in the presence of missing observations has a long history. In particular, the first consistent estimators of the spectral density have been developed at about the same time...