Accuracy of molecular dating with the rho statistic: Deviations from coalescent expectations under a range of demographic models

Human Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 335-357

  Cox, Murray P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic dating; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular chronology; statistic

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ERROR; EXERCISE; GENEALOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION; STATISTICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58849132596     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/1534-6617-80.4.335     Document Type: Article

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