Convergence to the coalescent in populations of substantially varying size

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 368-378

  Jagers, Peter ^a   Sagitov, Serik ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coalescent; Exchangeability; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242780104     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1082999072     Document Type: Article

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