A comparison of two popular statistical methods for estimating the time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) from a sample of DNA sequences

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 7-12

  Basu, Analabha ^a   Majumder, Partha P ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Evolution; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 0346218002     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02715874     Document Type: Article

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