Simulating probability distributions in the coalescent

DOI10.1006/tpbi.1994.1023zbMath0807.92015OpenAlexW2117453125MaRDI QIDQ1340495

Publication date: 26 February 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/tpbi.1994.1023

zbMATH Keywords

selection population genetics recursion Markov chain maximum likelihood variance reduction recombination absorbing states coalescent sampling distribution variable population size simulation approach \(K\)-allele model ancestral relationships estimating substitution rates for DNA sequence data finite-sites models infinitely-many-sites process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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