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Robustness of the estimator of the index of dispersion for DNA sequences.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jun 1997
Nielsen R
Abstract excerpt
If substitutions in DNA sequences follow a Poisson process, the ratio of the variance in the number of substitutions to the mean number of substitutions (the index of dispersion) should equal 1. In this paper, the robustness of the commonly applied estimator of the index of dispersion in replacement sites and silent sites to various assumptions regarding DNA evolution is explored using simulation methods. The...
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