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On Poisson approximations for the Ewens sampling formula when the mutation parameter grows with the sample size

Probability 2022-03-29 v1

Abstract

The Ewens sampling formula was firstly introduced in the context of population genetics by Warren John Ewens in 1972, and has appeared in a lot of other scientific fields. There are abundant approximation results associated with the Ewens sampling formula especially when one of the parameters, the sample size nn or the mutation parameter θ\theta which denotes the scaled mutation rate, tends to infinity while the other is fixed. By contrast, the case that θ\theta grows with nn has been considered in a relatively small number of works, although this asymptotic setup is also natural. In this paper, when θ\theta grows with nn, we advance the study concerning the asymptotic properties of the total number of alleles and of the counts of components in the allelic partition assuming the Ewens sampling formula from the viewpoint of Poisson approximations.

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@article{arxiv.1704.06768,
  title  = {On Poisson approximations for the Ewens sampling formula when the mutation parameter grows with the sample size},
  author = {Koji Tsukuda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.06768},
  year   = {2022}
}

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38 pages

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