Convergence to the coalescent with simultaneous multiple mergers

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 839-854

  Sagitov, Serik ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

coalescent; Exchangeability; Poisson Dirichlet distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442307359     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1067436085     Document Type: Article

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