Diffusion processes and Coalescent trees

Diffusion processes and Coalescent trees

Probability Seminar
Feb 8, 2012, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 332 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Robert Griffiths, University of Oxford
Diffusion process models for evolution of neutral genes have the coalescent process underlying them. Models are reversible with transition functions having a diagonal expansion in orthogonal polynomial eigenfunctions of dimension greater than one, extending classical one-dimensional diffusion models with Beta stationary distribution and Jacobi polynomial expansions to models with Dirichlet or...