Abstract:Multiple-merger coalescents, also known as Lambda-colescents, have been used to describe the genealogy of populations that have a skewed offspring distribution or that undergo strong selection. Inferring the characteristic measure Lambda, which describes the rates of the multiple-merger events, is key to understand these processes. So far, most inference methods only work for some particular families of Lambda-coalescents that are described by only one parameter, but not for more general models. This article i… Show more
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