The stepping stone model: New formulas expose old myths

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1348-1377

  Cox, J Theodore ^a   Durrett, Richard ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalescent; Fixation indices; Heterozygosity; Identity by descent; Stepping stone model; Voter model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036437165     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1037125866     Document Type: Article

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