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Convergence of Likelihood Ratios and Estimators for Selection in non-neutral Wright-Fisher Diffusions

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 نشر من قبل Jaromir Sant
 تاريخ النشر 2020
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A number of discrete time, finite population size models in genetics describing the dynamics of allele frequencies are known to converge (subject to suitable scaling) to a diffusion process in the infinite population limit, termed the Wright-Fisher diffusion. In this article we show that the diffusion is ergodic uniformly in the selection and mutation parameters, and that the measures induced by the solution to the stochastic differential equation are uniformly locally asymptotically normal. Subsequently these two results are used to analyse the statistical properties of the Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian estimators for the selection parameter, when both selection and mutation are acting on the population. In particular, it is shown that these estimators are uniformly over compact sets consistent, display uniform in the selection parameter asymptotic normality and convergence of moments over compact sets, and are asymptotically efficient for a suitable class of loss functions.



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