Closed-form asymptotic sampling distributions under the coalescent with recombination for an arbitrary number of loci

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 391-407

  Bhaskar, Anand ^a   Song, Yun S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansion; Coalescent theory; Recombination; Sampling distribution

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; ASYMPTOTIC SERIES; CLOSED FORM; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COALESCENT THEORY; COMBINATORIAL APPROACH; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; RECOMBINATION; RECOMBINATION RATE; SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872023581     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1339878717     Document Type: Article

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