The internal branch lengths of the kingman coalescent

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1325-1348

  Dahmer, Iulia ^a   Kersting, Götz ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Coalescent; Coupling; Internal branch length; Markov chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925432521     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-AAP1024     Document Type: Article

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