Total variation distances and rates of convergence for ancestral coalescent processes in exchangeable population models

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 983-993

  Mohle M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANCESTRAL COALESCENT PROCESSES; EXCHANGEABLE POPULATION MODELS; POPULATION GENETICS; RATE OF CONVERGENCE; TOTAL VARIATION DISTANCES; WEAK CONVERGENCE;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 17944376025     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1013540343     Document Type: Article

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