A gentle introduction to the discrete Laplace method for estimating Y-STR haplotype frequencies

2013/04/08 by Mikkel Meyer Andersen, Andersen, Mikkel Meyer, Poul Svante Eriksen +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · #Applications (stat.AP) #Computation (stat.CO) #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals #Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock #Genetic diversity and population structure #stat.AP #stat.CO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1304.2129

18 pages, 5 figures

openalex publication_date 2013/04/08 · arxiv created 2013/10/16 · arxiv updated 2013/10/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Y-STR data simulated under a Fisher-Wright model of evolution with a single-step mutation model turns out to be well predicted by a method using discrete Laplace distributions.

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