Coalescent lineage distributions

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 405-429

  Griffiths, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of a mutation; Coalescent lineage distribution; Coalescent process; Hypergeometric function; Infinitely many alleles model; Jacobi polynomial; Line of descent

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COALESCENCE; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COALESCENT LINEAGE DISTRIBUTION; HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTION; INFINITELY-MANY-ALLELES MODEL; JACOBI POLYNOMIAL;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33745955125     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1151337077     Document Type: Article

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