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Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models

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  • Legried, Brandon
  • Terhorst, Jonathan

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A number of powerful demographic inference methods have been developed in recent years, with the goal of fitting rich evolutionary models to genetic data obtained from many populations. In this paper we investigate the statistical performance of these methods in the specific case where there is continuous migration between populations. Compared with earlier work, migration significantly complicates the theoretical analysis and requires new techniques. We employ the theories of phase-type distributions and concentration of measure in order to study the two-island and isolation-with-migration models, resulting in both upper and lower bounds on rates of convergence for parametric estimators in migration models. For the upper bounds, we consider inferring rates of coalescent and migration on the basis of directly observing pairwise coalescent times, and, more realistically, when (conditionally) Poisson-distributed mutations dropped on latent trees are observed. We complement these upper bounds with information-theoretic lower bounds which establish a limit, in terms of sample size, below which inference is effectively impossible.

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  • Legried, Brandon & Terhorst, Jonathan, 2022. "Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 147(C), pages 16-27.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:thpobi:v:147:y:2022:i:c:p:16-27
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2022.08.001
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