Infinitely divisible limit processes for the Ewens sampling formula

DOI10.1023/A:1020265607917MaRDI QIDQ1873254zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Jogesh Babu, Eugenijus Manstavičius

Publication date 19 May 2003

Published in Lithuanian Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1020265607917

zbMATH Keywords

allelic partitionfunctional limit theorempermutationpopulation geneticsprobabilistic number theoryrandom partitionSkorokhod topologystable process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07)

Review text

This paper is concerned with infinitely divisible limit processes for the Ewens sampling formula. The formula states that if there are no selection effects, the numbers of alleles \(k_1,k_2,\dots,k_n\) represented \(1,2,\dots,n\) times, respectively, in a sample of \(n\) genes are \[ \frac{n!}{v(v+1)\cdots (v+n-1)}\prod^n_{j=1} (v/j)^{k_j}/k_j,\quad v> 0,\;k_j\geq 0, \] where \(k_1 + 2k_2+\cdots nk_n = n\). The authors show that under very general conditions a partial sum process of dependent variables converges weakly in a function space if and only if the corresponding process for independent random variables converges weakly. Necessary and sufficient conditions are established for weak convergence to a stable process, but it is shown by a counterexample that these conditions are not necessary for the one-dimensional convergence.

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