On convergence to diffusion processes of Markov chains related to population genetics

DOI10.2307/1426854zbMath0426.60074OpenAlexW2313719075MaRDI QIDQ3862208

Norio Okada

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1426854

zbMATH Keywords

diffusion approximationpopulation geneticsMarkov chainmartingale problemfixation probabilityrandom natural selection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70)

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