On asymptotics of the beta coalescents

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 496-515

  Gnedin, Alexander ^a   Iksanov, Alexander ^b   Marynych, Alexander ^b   Möhle, Martin ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absorption time; Asymptotic expansion; Beta coalescent; Coupling; Number of collisions; Total branch length; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

ABSORPTION TIME; ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; BETA COALESCENT; BRANCH LENGTH; NUMBER OF COLLISIONS; WASSERSTEIN DISTANCE;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84903787343     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1401369704     Document Type: Article

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