A classification of coalescent processes for haploid exchangeable population models

Annals of Probability

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1547-1562

  Möhle, Martin ^a   Sagitov, Serik ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ancestral processes; Coalescent; Exchangeability; Generator; Neutrality; Population genetics; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035470867     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1015345761     Document Type: Article

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