Probability distribution of tree age for the simple birth-death process, with applications to distributions of number of ancestral lineages and divergence times for pairs of taxa in a Yule tree

DOI10.1007/s11538-023-01196-7zbMath1522.92039OpenAlexW4386356703MaRDI QIDQ6077317

Willem H. Mulder

Publication date: 25 September 2023

Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-023-01196-7

zbMATH Keywords

phylogenybirth-death processTMRCAdivergence timebirth-only processtree age distributionYule prior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of branching processes (60J85)

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