Abc: An R package for approximate Bayesian computation (ABC)

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 475-479

  Csilléry, Katalin ^a   François, Olivier ^b   Blum, Michael G B ^b  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Coalescent; Model based inference; Neural networks; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861153207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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