On the number of segregating sites for populations with large family sizes

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 750-767

  Möhle, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoregressive process; Coalescent process; Infinitely many sites model; Multiple collisions; Segregating sites; Stochastic difference equation; Total number of mutations

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRAL LINEAGES; AUTOREGRESSIVE PROCESS; COALESCENT PROCESS; INFINITELY-MANY-SITES MODEL; MULTIPLE COLLISIONS; SEGREGATING SITES; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENCE EQUATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 33749577624     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1158685000     Document Type: Article

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