On the inadmissibility of Watterson's estimator

DOI10.1016/j.tpb.2007.11.009zbMath1208.92048OpenAlexW2074164491WikidataQ60307500 ScholiaQ60307500MaRDI QIDQ615423

Florian Gach, Andreas Futschik

Publication date: 5 January 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2007.11.009

zbMATH Keywords

population geneticsshrinkagescaled mutation parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Admissibility in statistical decision theory (62C15)

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Uses Software

• Seq-Gen

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