Importance sampling for Lambda-coalescents in the infinitely many sites model

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 155-173

  Birkner, Matthias ^a   Blath, Jochen ^b   Steinrücken, Matthias ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Importance sampling; Infinitely many sites model; Lambda coalescent; Likelihood estimation; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENEALOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MODELING; SAMPLING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 79955475327     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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