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A non-zero variance of Tajima’s estimator for two sequences even for infinitely many unlinked loci
2016-08-17
Abstract excerpt
The population-scaled mutation rate, θ , is informative on the effective population size and is thus widely used in population genetics. We show that for two sequences and n unlinked loci, Tajima’s estimator ( ), which is the average number of pairwise differences, is not consistent and therefore its variance does not vanish even as n → ∞. The non-zero variance of results from a (weak) correlation between coa...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3e8287bf-5f61-59ce-b022-bd62536ec0dd
- DOI
- 10.1101/069989