Properties of Weir and Cockerham's Fst estimators and associated bootstrap confidence intervals

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 39-52

  Leviyang, Sivan ^a   Hamilton, Matthew B ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Coalescent; Fst

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; COALESCENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; WEIR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; POPULATION GENETICS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 78751584824     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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