Worst-case identifiability conjecture for general coalescents
Worst-case identifiability conjecture for general coalescents
Let be the finite measure governing a general -coalescent, and let denote the quantity controlling the additional sample-size requirement for identifiability of the expected site frequency spectrum. Identifiability conjecture. For all and ,
The conjecture asserts that the point-mass coalescent with mass at gives the worst case for identifiability among the considered -coalescents. If true, it would provide a uniform upper bound on the sample-size correction needed to identify the demographic history from the expected site frequency spectrum; the supplied text gives no resolution.
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Jeffrey P. Spence, John A. Kamm and Yun S. Song, “The site frequency spectrum for general coalescents”, arXiv:1510.05631 (2016).
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