Approximate likelihood methods for estimating local recombination rates

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 657-680

  Fearnhead, Paul ^a   Donnelly, Peter ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coalescent; Composite likelihood; Lipoprotein lipase; Marginal likelihood; Mutation rate heterogeneity; Pseudolikelihood; Recombination rate; Recombinational hot spot

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036433716     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00355     Document Type: Article

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