Approximate sampling formulae for general finite-alleles models of mutation

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 408-428

  Bhaskar, Anand ^a   Kamm, John A ^b   Song, Yun S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalescent theory; Martingale; Sampling probability; Urn model

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS; CLOSED FORM; COALESCENT THEORY; EXACT FORMULAS; GENERAL MODEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MARTINGALE; MUTATION RATES; RECURRENT MUTATION; SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION; URN MODELS;

DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; SOFTWARE TESTING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84872033774     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1339878718     Document Type: Article

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