Inverse problems in evolutionary biology

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Inverse problems in evolutionary biology

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In this thesis, we explore three techniques which could be used to increase the efficiency of analyses in evolutionary genetics while still producing reasonably accurate results. The first of these methods improves the efficiency of analyses based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) through the application of delayed acceptance sampling, an MCMC method with an additional proposal step in which an acceptance probability is computed from computationally less expensive approximate likelihoods. Re...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2017

Creator

Hiscott, Gordon

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/7430

Related subjects

evolutionary / biology / inverse / problems / MCMC / numerical / integration / basis / function / Chebyshev / dynamic / programming

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