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Coalescent lineage distributions

Abstract:

We study identities for the distribution of the number of edges at time t back (i.e. measured backwards) in a coalescent tree whose subtrees have no mutations. This distribution is important in the infinitely-many-alleles model of mutation, where every mutation is unique. The model includes, as a special case, the number of edges in a coalescent tree at time t back when mutation is ignored. The identities take the form of expected values of functions of Zt = eiXt, where Xt is distributed as s...

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10.1239/aap/1151337077

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Statistics
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Author
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Volume:
38
Issue:
2
Pages:
405-429
Publication date:
2006-06-01
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ISSN:
0001-8678
Source identifiers:
97769
Language:
English
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2012-12-19