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        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJSA</journal-id>
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            <journal-title>International Journal of Stochastic Analysis</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">2090-3340</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">2090-3332</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>Hindawi Publishing Corporation</publisher-name>
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        <article-id pub-id-type="other">963831</article-id>
        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1155/2013/963831</article-id>
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            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Research Article</subject>
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            <article-title>Modeling Neutral Evolution Using an Infinite-Allele Markov Branching Process</article-title>
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            <contrib contrib-type="author" id="U40795923" corresp="yes">
                <name>
                    <surname>Wu</surname>
                    <given-names>Xiaowei</given-names>
                </name>
                <email>xwwu@vt.edu</email>
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                    <sup>1</sup>
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            <contrib contrib-type="author" id="U96417279">
                <name>
                    <surname>Kimmel</surname>
                    <given-names>Marek</given-names>
                </name>
                <email>kimmel@rice.edu</email>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I2">
                    <sup>2, 3</sup>
                </xref>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I3"/>
            </contrib>
            <contrib contrib-type="Academic Editor" id="U39145898">
                <name>
                    <surname>Olofsson</surname>
                    <given-names>Peter</given-names>
                </name>
            </contrib>
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            <sup>1</sup>
            <addr-line>Department of Statistics</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Blacksburg</addr-line>
            <addr-line>VA 24061</addr-line>
            <country>USA</country>
            <ext-link ext-link-type="domain-name">vt.edu</ext-link>
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        <aff id="I2">
            <sup>2</sup>
            <addr-line>Departments of Statistics and Bioengineering</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Rice University</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Houston, TX 77005</addr-line>
            <country>USA</country>
            <ext-link ext-link-type="domain-name">rice.edu</ext-link>
        </aff>
        <aff id="I3">
            <sup>3</sup>
            <addr-line>Systems Engineering Group</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Silesian University of Technology</addr-line>
            <addr-line>44-100 Gliwice</addr-line>
            <country>Poland</country>
            <ext-link ext-link-type="domain-name">polsl.pl</ext-link>
        </aff>
        <pub-date pub-type="publication-year">
            <year>2013</year>
        </pub-date>
        <pub-date pub-type="archival-date">
            <day>17</day>
            <month>3</month>
            <year>2013</year>
        </pub-date>
        <volume>2013</volume>
        <history>
            <date date-type="received">
                <day>06</day>
                <month>11</month>
                <year>2012</year>
            </date>
            <date date-type="rev-recd">
                <day>14</day>
                <month>02</month>
                <year>2013</year>
            </date>
            <date date-type="accepted">
                <day>18</day>
                <month>02</month>
                <year>2013</year>
            </date>
        </history>
        <permissions>
            <copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
            <copyright-holder>Copyright &#xa9; 2013 Xiaowei Wu and Marek Kimmel.</copyright-holder>
            <license license-type="open-access">
                <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the <ext-link xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
            </license>
        </permissions>
        <abstract>
            <p>We consider an infinite-allele Markov branching process (IAMBP). Our main focus is the frequency spectrum of this process, that is, the proportion of alleles having a given number of copies at a specified time point. We derive the variance of the frequency spectrum, which is useful for interval estimation and hypothesis testing for process parameters. In addition, for a class of special IAMBP with birth and death offspring distribution, we show that the mean of its limiting frequency spectrum has an explicit form in terms of the hypergeometric function. We also derive an asymptotic expression for convergence rate to the limit. Simulations are used to illustrate the results for the birth and death process.</p>
        </abstract>
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    <funding-source>National Science Centre</funding-source>
    <award-id>NN519579938</award-id>
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