A transition function expansion for a diffusion model with selection

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 123-162

  Barbour, A D ^a   Ethier, S N ^b   Griffiths, R C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupling; Duality; Finite dimensional diffusion process; Multitype birth and death process; Population genetics; Ray Knight compactification; Reversibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034344297     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1019737667     Document Type: Article

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