Recent common ancestors of all present-day individuals

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1002-1026

  Chang, Joseph T ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THEOREM PROVING;

GALTON-WATSON PROCESS; GENEOLOGICAL MODELS; POPULATION GENETICS; WRIGHT-FISHER MODEL;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 85037965695     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800009587     Document Type: Article

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