[PDF] Top 20 Estimating Ancestral Population Parameters

... For the isolation model, the observed numbers of shared, fixed, and exclusive polymorphic sites are used to estimate the relative sizes of the three populations, a[r] ... See full document

... history parameters, this framework has been proven to be valuable for assessing population trends of threatened species, required to guide conservation ... See full document

... base population (breeds or ...the ancestral population and connections between ...base population in pedigree ...each ancestral population as a finite-sized pool of ...each ... See full document

... a population of recombinant inbred lines was investigated by estimating quantitative genetic parameters and mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) for adult life span in five environments: standard ... See full document

... of ancestral populations as well as the local ...the ancestral population data during the inference and works with the hypothetical found- ers and the admixed population ... See full document

... In this paper, we have suggested a class of ratio type estimators with a linear combination using two auxiliary variables with some known population mean of the study variable. The bias and the mean square error ... See full document

... The population of 100 consecutive trips (after leaving 20 outlier values) measured by two fuel meters for a small family car in normal usage given by Lewis et al (1991) has been taken into ... See full document

... jointly estimating species divergence times and ancestral popula- tion ...human-chimpanzee ancestral population size was four to seven times larger than the current human effective ... See full document

... own, while moves 3 and 4 (subtree exchange and node- Because of the explicit nature of MCMC inference, age move) form another irreducible group. We fix a the details of a particular analysis, including the pro- small ... See full document

... AA population, self-identified ethnicity is not sufficient to estimate the admixture level and a random AA sample may differ in admixture level from another sample, to an extent that will affect allele fre- ... See full document

... and population parameters from molecular sequence data has become central to the understanding of infectious disease ...epidemic parameters and the sample ...at estimating epidemiological ... See full document

... of population and speci- 1993; Clark 1997) was used to assess whether the num- ation parameters in the ...putatively ancestral polymorphisms detected in son (Table 8), and these estimates should ... See full document

... the population on which to give results nearly as good as those obtained by choos- SNPs are defined is from the population under study, ing SNPs from the sample ...other parameters that are hamper ... See full document

... In this paper, a generalized ratio-type estimator based on ranked set sampling (RSS) is proposed for estimating population mean using the known population parameters of auxiliary variable. The ... See full document

... The population was stratified into 4 strata base on political zones in the State which are Egba, Yewa, Ijebu and Remo with sizes 89, 91, 69 and 53 ...total population size is 302, population mean for ... See full document

... and 28 show that using the weight function does not always reduce the bias or the MSE for some of the parameters. In fact the results are very variable , sometimes the bias is reduced and MSE increased or vice ... See full document

... Figures 4.2 and 4.3 show the effects of the choice of c on bias calibrated estimates of population total. Clearly, the effect of c on total estimates ( c rises from zero to infinity) is not monotonic as one might ... See full document

... Insurance companies would also find it useful to evaluate the distribution of the future expected number of survivors for each cohort since they are interested in estimating the probabilities associated with their ... See full document

... European population having experienced a bottleneck that accompanied the out-of-Africa migration (David and Capy 1988; Lachaise et ...of population-level gene expression and DNA sequence polymorphism ... See full document

... CHR2 insertion rates were calculated by mapping the in- sertion numbers on the species tree and using previously estimated divergence times [10] and an average generation time of 24.4 years for extant baleen whales [29]. ... See full document