Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXI - 2001 /

• Main Authors: Tavaré, Simon (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Zeitouni, Ofer (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Picard, Jean (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1837
• Subjects: Probabilities.; Biomathematics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Genetics and Population Dynamics.

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...