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... tree are reviewed in Felsenstein (19881. The added ingredient in the population genetics setting is the random nature of the coalescent itself in principle, we have to average likelihoods on trees over the underlying coalescent sample paths.
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... We saw that of the 21 segregating sites in the sample, 14 were consistent with an infinitely-manysites moclel. The remaining 7 sites are described in Table 5.2.
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  • population genetics
  • segregating sites
  • probabilistic structure
  • sequence data
  • likelihood methods


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