diff --git a/examples/Project.toml b/examples/Project.toml
index 80ea7be..c9e3ec3 100644
--- a/examples/Project.toml
+++ b/examples/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 [deps]
+Distributions = "31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f"
 GLMakie = "e9467ef8-e4e7-5192-8a1a-b1aee30e663a"
 GraphMakie = "1ecd5474-83a3-4783-bb4f-06765db800d2"
+Graphs = "86223c79-3864-5bf0-83f7-82e725a168b6"
 IncompleteLU = "40713840-3770-5561-ab4c-a76e7d0d7895"
 KrylovKit = "0b1a1467-8014-51b9-945f-bf0ae24f4b77"
 LinearSolve = "7ed4a6bd-45f5-4d41-b270-4a48e9bafcae"
diff --git a/examples/statistical_model_prototype.jl b/examples/statistical_model_prototype.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e65c56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/statistical_model_prototype.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+using Distributions
+
+struct StatisticalModel{E, M, T}
+    embedding::E
+    invariant_measure::M
+    transition_operator::T 
+end
+
+struct DeltaFunction{W, C}
+    weights::W
+    means::C
+end
+
+struct GeneralGaussianMixture{W, M, C}
+    weights::W
+    means::M
+    covariances::C
+end
+
+
+function determine_statistical_model(trajectory, tree_type::Tree{Val{false},S}; override=false) where {S}
+    if typeof(tree_type.arguments) <: NamedTuple
+        if haskey(tree_type.arguments, :minimum_probability)
+            minimum_probability = tree_type.arguments.minimum_probability
+        else
+            @warn "no minimum probability specified, using 0.01"
+            minimum_probability = 0.01
+        end
+    elseif typeof(tree_type.arguments) <: Number
+        minimum_probability = tree_type.arguments
+    else
+        @warn "no minimum probability specified, using 0.01"
+        minimum_probability = 0.01
+    end
+    Nmax = 100 * round(Int, 1 / minimum_probability)
+    c_trajectory = copy(trajectory)
+    if (size(trajectory)[2] > Nmax) & !(override)
+        @warn "trajectory too long, truncating to roughly $Nmax for determining embedding"
+        skip = round(Int, size(trajectory)[2] / Nmax)
+        c_trajectory = copy(trajectory[:, 1:skip:end])
+    end
+    if (10 / (size(trajectory)[2]) > minimum_probability) & !(override)
+        @warn "minimum probabity too small, using 10x the reciprocal of the number of points"
+        minimum_probability = 10 / size(trajectory)[2]
+    end
+    F, H, edge_information, parent_to_children, global_to_local, centers_list, CC, local_to_global = unstructured_tree(c_trajectory, minimum_probability)
+
+    embedding = UnstructuredTree(global_to_local, centers_list, parent_to_children)
+
+    means = zeros(size(trajectory, 1), length(global_to_local))
+    for key in keys(global_to_local)
+        local_index = global_to_local[key]
+        means[:, local_index] = CC[key]
+    end
+    # means = [means[:, i] for i in 1:size(means, 2)]
+    @info "computing partition trajectory"
+    probability_weights = zeros(length(means))
+    partitions = zeros(Int64, size(trajectory)[2])
+    for (i, state) in ProgressBar(enumerate(eachcol(trajectory)))
+        cell_index = embedding(state)
+        partitions[i] = cell_index
+        probability_weights[cell_index] += 1 / size(trajectory)[2]
+    end
+    probability_weights = probability_weights / sum(probability_weights)
+
+    return embedding, probability_weights, means, partitions
+end
+
+
+# include the lorenz file here
+method = Tree(false, 0.01)
+
+emb, pr, ms, partitions = determine_statistical_model(trajectory, method)
+
+empirical_centers = zeros(size(trajectory)[1], maximum(partitions))
+empirical_covariance = zeros(size(trajectory)[1], size(trajectory)[1], maximum(partitions))
+empirical_count = zeros(Int64, maximum(partitions))
+for (i, state) in ProgressBar(enumerate(eachcol(trajectory)))
+    cell_index = embedding(state)
+    partitions[i] = cell_index
+    empirical_count[cell_index] += 1
+    empirical_centers[:, cell_index] .+= state
+    empirical_covariance[:, :, cell_index] .+= state * state'
+end
+# adjust 
+adj_empirical_centers = empirical_centers ./ reshape(empirical_count, 1, length(empirical_count))
+adj_empirical_covariance = empirical_covariance ./ reshape(empirical_count .- 1, 1, 1, length(empirical_count))
+for i in 1:length(probability_weights)
+    adj_empirical_covariance[:, :, i] .-= (adj_empirical_centers[:, i] * adj_empirical_centers[:, i]') * empirical_count[i] / (empirical_count[i] - 1)
+end
+probability_weights = empirical_count / sum(empirical_count)
+
+δmodel = DeltaFunction(probability_weights, adj_empirical_centers)
+Σmodel = GeneralGaussianMixture(probability_weights, adj_empirical_centers, adj_empirical_covariance)
+
+import Base.rand
+import Statistics.mean
+import Statistics.cov
+
+function rand(δmodel::DeltaFunction)
+    cell_index = rand(Categorical(δmodel.weights))
+    return δmodel.means[:, cell_index]
+end
+
+function rand(Σmodel::GeneralGaussianMixture)
+    cell_index = rand(Categorical(Σmodel.weights))
+    return rand(MvNormal(Σmodel.means[:, cell_index], Σmodel.covariances[:, :, cell_index]))
+end
+
+function mean(δmodel::DeltaFunction)
+    ensemble_mean = zeros(size(δmodel.means)[1])
+    for i in 1:size(δmodel.means)[2]
+        ensemble_mean .+= δmodel.weights[i] * δmodel.means[:, i]
+    end
+    return ensemble_mean
+end
+
+function mean(Σmodel::GeneralGaussianMixture)
+    ensemble_mean = zeros(size(Σmodel.means)[1])
+    for i in 1:size(Σmodel.means)[2]
+        ensemble_mean .+= Σmodel.weights[i] * Σmodel.means[:, i]
+    end
+    return ensemble_mean
+end
+
+function std(δmodel::DeltaFunction)
+    ensemble_std = zeros(size(δmodel.means)[1])
+    ensemble_mean = mean(δmodel)
+    for i in 1:size(δmodel.means)[2]
+        ensemble_std .+= δmodel.weights[i] * (δmodel.means[:, i] .- ensemble_mean).^2
+    end
+    return sqrt.(ensemble_std)
+end
+
+function cov(δmodel::DeltaFunction)
+    ensemble_cov = zeros(size(δmodel.means)[1], size(δmodel.means)[1])
+    ensemble_mean = mean(δmodel)
+    for i in 1:size(δmodel.means)[2]
+        ensemble_cov .+= δmodel.weights[i] * (δmodel.means[:, i] .- ensemble_mean) * (δmodel.means[:, i] .- ensemble_mean)'
+    end
+    return ensemble_cov
+end
+
+function cov(Σmodel::GeneralGaussianMixture)
+    ensemble_cov = zeros(size(Σmodel.means)[1], size(Σmodel.means)[1])
+    for i in 1:size(Σmodel.means)[2]
+        ensemble_cov .+= Σmodel.weights[i] * (Σmodel.covariances[:, :, i] + Σmodel.means[:,i] * Σmodel.means[:,i]')
+    end
+    ensemble_mean = mean(Σmodel)
+    ensemble_cov .-= ensemble_mean * ensemble_mean'
+    return ensemble_cov
+end
+
+indval = 2
+ind1 = trajectory[:, partitions .== indval]
+check1 = mean(ind1, dims=2)
+adj_empirical_centers[:, indval] - check1
+cov1 = cov(ind1')
+adj_empirical_covariance[:, :, indval]
+
+Nsamples = 100
+samples = zeros(size(trajectory)[1], Nsamples)
+for i in 1:Nsamples
+    samples[:, i] = rand(Σmodel)
+end
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