Statistical composition of high-scoring segments from molecular sequences

DOI10.1214/aos/1176347616zbMath0711.92013OpenAlexW2008610661MaRDI QIDQ922997

Tsutomu Kawabata, Amir Dembo, Samuel Karlin

Publication date: 1990

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176347616

zbMATH Keywords

DNAasymptotical extremal distribution of high aggregate segment scoresconditional Gaussian central limit lawsgeneral scoring schemei.i.d. letter valueslimiting letter composition of high-scoring segmentsmolecular sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Protein sequences, DNA sequences (92D20)

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