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Record Nr.

UNISA996466483603316

Autore

Tavaré Simon

Titolo

Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics [[electronic resource] ] : Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXI - 2001 / / by Simon Tavaré, Ofer Zeitouni ; edited by Jean Picard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2004

ISBN

3-540-39874-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2004.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 316 p.)

Collana

École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour, , 0721-5363 ; ; 1837

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Probabilities

Biomathematics

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Genetics and Population Dynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"... lectures were given at the 31st Probability Summer School in Saint-Flour (July 8-25, 2001) ..."--Preface.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Ancestral inference in population genetics / Simon Tavaré -- pt. 2. Random walks in random environment / Ofer Zeitouni.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains lectures given at the 31st Probability Summer School in Saint-Flour (July 8-25, 2001). Simon Tavaré’s lectures serve as an introduction to the coalescent, and to inference for ancestral processes in population genetics. The stochastic computation methods described include rejection methods, importance sampling, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and approximate Bayesian methods. Ofer Zeitouni’s course on "Random Walks in Random Environment" presents systematically the tools that have been introduced to study the model. A fairly complete description of available results in dimension 1 is given. For higher dimension, the basic techniques and a discussion of some of the available results are provided. The contribution also includes an updated annotated bibliography and suggestions for further reading. Olivier Catoni's course appears separately.