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# Statistical properties of the site-frequency spectrum associated with Lambda-coalescents

@article{Birkner2013StatisticalPO,
title={Statistical properties of the site-frequency spectrum associated with Lambda-coalescents},
author={Matthias C. F. Birkner and Jochen Blath and Bjarki Eldon},
journal={arXiv: Populations and Evolution},
year={2013}
}
• Published 26 May 2013
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Populations and Evolution
Statistical properties of the site frequency spectrum associated with Lambda-coalescents are our objects of study. In particular, we derive recursions for the expected value, variance, and covariance of the spectrum, extending earlier results of Fu (1995) for the classical Kingman coalescent. Estimating coalescent parameters introduced by certain Lambda-coalescents for datasets too large for full likelihood methods is our focus. The recursions for the expected values we obtain can be used to…

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