Weak convergence to the coalescent in neutral population models

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 446-460

  Mohle M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coalescence probability; Genealogical process; Hitting probability; Jump chain; Neutrality; Population genetics; Robustness; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033235813     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200017241     Document Type: Article

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