Estimating effective population size from samples of sequences: inefficiency of pairwise and segregating sites as compared to phylogenetic estimates.

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Summary

This paper shows how a maximum likelihood estimate of the effective population number can be derived from such a genealogical tree, and shows that there is much to gain by explicitly taking the tree structure of these genealogies into account.

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Published
1992-04-01
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Keywords

Pairwise comparison, Phylogenetic tree, Mathematics, Divergence (linguistics), Statistics

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