Tajima coalescent

Tajima coalescent

Neyman Seminar
Apr 2, 2019, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 141 McCone Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Julia Palacios, Stanford University
In this talk I will present the Tajima coalescent, a model on the ancestral relationships of molecular samples. This model is then used as a prior model on unlabeled genealogies to infer evolutionary parameters with a Bayesian nonparametric method. I will then show that conditionally on observed data and a particular mutation model, the cardinality of the hidden state space of Tajima’s...