Numerical solutions for patterns statistics on Markov chains

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Nuel, Gregory ^a  

^a University of Paris 5   (France)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Compound Poisson approximations; Exact; Gaussian approximations; Large deviations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRUS GENOME;

ALGORITHMS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33750243061     PISSN: 15446115     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1219     Document Type: Review

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