Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

On the inadmissibility of Watterson's estimator.

Theoretical population biology - 1 Mar 2008

Futschik Andreas, Gach Florian

Abstract excerpt

We consider the estimation of the scaled mutation parameter theta, which is one of the parameters of key interest in population genetics. We provide a general result showing when estimators of theta can be improved using shrinkage when taking the mean squared error as the measure of performance....

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Austria
Share to Genetics, Population
Share to Models, Statistical

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Mutation

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 18215409
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.11.009

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 2 Sept 2026. Prepared record publication-18215409-2026-09-02.2. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-02.2.

Source receipt: PubMed via Helena Literature Corpus, retrieved 2 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

On the inadmissibility of Watterson's estimator.PMID 18215409Read ↗

Some statistical improvements for estimating population size and mutation rate from segregating sites in DNA sequences.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Fast and accurate estimation of the population-scaled mutation rate, theta, from microsatellite genotype data.Semantic proximity Read ↗

A statistical treatment of biases affecting the estimation of mutation rates.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Neural Networks for self-adjusting Mutation Rate Estimation when the Recombination Rate is unknownSemantic proximity Read ↗

Accurate and fast methods to estimate the population mutation rate from error prone sequences.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Neutrality tests for sequences with missing data.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Robustness of coalescent estimators to between-lineage mutation rate variation.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Properties of Weir and Cockerham's Fst estimators and associated bootstrap confidence intervals.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Choice of summary statistic weights in approximate Bayesian computation.Semantic proximity Read ↗

No BLUE among phylogenetic estimators.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Sufficiency of the number of segregating sites in the limit under finite-sites mutation.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Accuracy of coalescent likelihood estimates: do we need more sites, more sequences, or more loci?Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.