Some statistical improvements for estimating population size and mutation rate from segregating sites in DNA sequences

DOI10.1006/tpbi.1998.1401zbMath0951.62090WikidataQ47263387 ScholiaQ47263387MaRDI QIDQ1296931

Catherine Larédo, Frédéric Austerlitz, Etienne K. Klein

Publication date: 3 January 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9c622168a659247f4417ec3331b4cc54eb26ef4e

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergence; confidence intervals; asymptotic normality; asymptotic efficiency; central limit theorem; Watterson estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

92D20: Protein sequences, DNA sequences

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