Approximate Ewens formulae for symmetric overdominance selection

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 637-663

  Grote, Mark N ^a   Speed, Terence P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ewens Sampling Formula; General selection model; Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) loci; Poisson Dirichlet distribution; Size biased permutation; Symmetric overdominance selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036334761     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1026915619     Document Type: Article

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