Determining the distribution of fitness effects using a generalized beta-Burr distribution

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2017.07.001MaRDI QIDQ725155zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paul Joyce, Zaid Abdo

Publication date 1 August 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2017.07.001

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive mutation distributiondistribution of fitness effectsextreme value theorygeneralized beta-Burr distributionlikelihood ratio testing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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• A Look at the Burr and Related Distributions
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• Editorial: Introduction to the Paul Joyce special issue

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