Asymptotic results on the length of coalescent trees

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 997-1025

  Delmas, Jean François ^a,c   Dhersin, Jean Stéphane ^b   Siri Jegousse, Arno ^b  

^a TELECOM ParisTech   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Beta coalescent; Coalescent process; Stable process; Watterson estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949134472     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AAP476     Document Type: Article

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