Consistency of estimators of population scaled parameters using composite likelihood

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 821-841

  Wiuf, Carsten ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coalescent theory; Composite likelihood; Consistency; Estimator; Genomic data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 33750543338     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-006-0031-0     Document Type: Article

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