English

Analysis and rejection sampling of Wright-Fisher diffusion bridges

Populations and Evolution 2013-10-04 v1 Probability

Abstract

We investigate the properties of a Wright-Fisher diffusion process started from frequency x at time 0 and conditioned to be at frequency y at time T. Such a process is called a bridge. Bridges arise naturally in the analysis of selection acting on standing variation and in the inference of selection from allele frequency time series. We establish a number of results about the distribution of neutral Wright-Fisher bridges and develop a novel rejection sampling scheme for bridges under selection that we use to study their behavior.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1306.3522,
  title  = {Analysis and rejection sampling of Wright-Fisher diffusion bridges},
  author = {Joshua G. Schraiber and Robert C. Griffiths and Steven N. Evans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3522},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

25 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

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