Hilbert Polynomial of the Kimura 3-Parameter Model AS2012 Special Volume, part 1: This issue includes a second series of papers from talks, posters and collaborations resulting from and inspired by the Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies Conference at Penn State, which took place in July 2012. Kimura 3-parameter model Hilbert polynomial toric fiber products lattice polytopes In [2] Buczyn ́ska and Wi ́sniewski showed that the Hilbert polynomial of the algebraic variety associated to the Jukes-Cantor binary model on a trivalent tree depends only on the number of leaves of the tree and not on its shape. We ask if this can be generalized to other group-based models. The Jukes-Cantor binary model has Z2 as the underlying group. We consider the Kimura 3-parameter model with Z2 × Z2 as the underlying group. We show that the generalization of the statement about the Hilbert polynomials to the Kimura 3-parameter model is not possible as the Hilbert polynomial depends on the shape of a trivalent tree. Kubjas, Kaie Article application/pdf islandora:1009728 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1009728 MATH / Applied Mathematics Illinois Institute of Technology Journal of Algebraic Statistics en Open Access