The distribution of family sizes under a time-homogeneous birth and death process

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1761-1775

  Moschopoulos, Panagis ^a   Shpak, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth death process; Genealogy; Hypergeometric function; Phylogeny; Taxon size

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; BIRTH AND DEATH PROCESS; BIRTH PROCESS; BIRTH-DEATH PROCESS; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITIES; HIGH RATE; HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; LIMITING CASE; LOW RATES; NUMBER OF SPECIES; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; SECOND ORDERS; SKEWED DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES NUMBER; TIME INTERVAL;

BIOLOGY; COALESCENCE; HISTORY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77952369571     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920902898498     Document Type: Article

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