The asymptotic behavior of an urn model arising in population genetics

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-16

  Donnelly, Peter ^a   Kurtz, Thomas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fleming Viot process; Genetics models; Neutral mutations; Ohta Kimura model; Polya urn; Quasi species

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030295812     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(96)00085-3     Document Type: Article

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