Minimal clade size and external branch length under the neutral coalescent

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 647-662

  Blum, Michael G B ^a   François, Olivier ^a,b  

^a School of Medicine   (France)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Coalescent genealogy; Statistical genetics; Tree shape statistics

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COALESCENT GENEALOGY; STATISTICAL GENETICS; TREE SHAPE STATISTICS; YULE DISTRIBUTION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 19544390558     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1127483740     Document Type: Article

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