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Title Probability and mathematical genetics : [papers in honour of Sir John Kingman] / edited by N.H. Bingham, C.M. Goldie
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 528 pages) : illustrations
Series London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 378
London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 378.
Contents A fragment of autobiography, 1957-1967 / J.F.C. Kingman -- More uses of exchangeability: representations of complex random structures / David J. Aldous -- Perfect simulation using dominated coupling from the past with application to area-interaction point processes and wavelet thresholding / G.K. Ambler and B.W. Silverman -- Assessing molecular variability in cancer genomes / A.D. Barbour and S. Tavaré -- Branching out / J.D. Biggins -- Kingman, category and combinatorics / N.H. Bingham and A.J. Ostaszewski -- Long-range dependence in a Cox process directed by an alternating renewal process / D.J. Daley -- Kernel methods and minimum contrast estimators for empirical deconvolution / Aurore Delaigle and Peter Hall -- The coalescent and its descendants / Peter Donnelly and Stephen Leslie -- Kingman and mathematical population genetics / Warren J. Ewens and Geoffrey A. Watterson -- Characterizations of exchangeable partitions and random discrete distributions by deletion properties / Alexander Gnedin, Chris Haulk and Jim Pitman -- Applying coupon-collecting theory to computer-aided assessments / C.M. Goldie, R. Cornish and C.L. Robinson -- Colouring and breaking sticks: random distributions and heterogeneous clustering / Peter J. Green -- The associated random walk and martingales in random walks with stationary increments / D.R. Grey -- Diffusion processes and coalescent trees / R.C. Griffiths and D. Spanó -- Three problems for the clairvoyant demon / Geoffrey Grimmett -- Homogenization for advection-diffusion in a perforated domain / P.H. Haynes, V.H. Hoang, J.R. Norris and K.C. Zygalakis -- Heavy traffic on a controlled motorway / F.P. Kelly and R.J. Williams -- Coupling time distribution asymptotics for some couplings of the Lévy stochastic area / W.S. Kendall -- Queueing with neighbours / V. Shcherbakov and S. Volkov -- Optimal information feed / P. Whittle -- A dynamical-system picture of a simple branching-process phase transition / David Williams
Summary Leading authorities cover a wide range of currently topical problems in probability and mathematical genetics
Notes Subtitle from cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
"Bibliography of J.F.C. Kingman": pages 1-16
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Subject Kingman, J. F. C. (John Frank Charles)
SUBJECT Kingman, J. F. C. (John Frank Charles) fast
Subject Probabilities.
Genetics -- Mathematical models.
Probability
probability.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics.
Genetics -- Mathematical models
Probabilities
Form Electronic book
Author Bingham, N. H
Goldie, C. M
Kingman, J. F. C. (John Frank Charles)
LC no. 2010282916
ISBN 9781139127806
1139127802
9781139107174
1139107178
9781139117142
1139117149
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9781283296014