Limit Theorems for Density-Dependent Population Genetics

Limit Theorems for Density-Dependent Population Genetics

Probability Seminar
Aug 25, 2010, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 330 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Todd Parsons, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Near the beginning of the last century, Sewall Wright and Ronald A. Fisher devised an elegant, mathematically tractable model of gene reproduction and replacement that laid the foundation for contemporary population genetics. The Wright-Fisher model and its extensions have given biologists powerful tools of statistical inference that enabled the quantification of genetic drift and selection....