Sufficiency of the number of segregating sites in the limit under finite-sites mutation

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-122

  RoyChoudhury, Arindam ^a   Wakeley, John ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ewens' sampling formula; Infinitely many alleles model; Infinitely many sites model; Maximum likelihood estimator; Mutation parameter; Number of segregating sites; Poisson Random Field; Sufficient statistic; Watterson's estimator

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; RECOMBINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955269486     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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