Some statistical improvements for estimating population size and mutation rate from segregating sites in DNA sequences

DOI10.1006/tpbi.1998.1401zbMath0951.62090OpenAlexW1974853392WikidataQ47263387 ScholiaQ47263387MaRDI QIDQ1296931

Etienne K. Klein, Catherine Larédo, Frédéric Austerlitz

Publication date: 3 January 2001

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9c622168a659247f4417ec3331b4cc54eb26ef4e

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergenceconfidence intervalsasymptotic normalityasymptotic efficiencycentral limit theoremWatterson estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Protein sequences, DNA sequences (92D20)

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