Review Article

A Tutorial of the Poisson Random Field Model in Population Genetics

Figure 3

A diagrammatic intuition for (5) illustrates that the probability of frequency x at time 𝑡 + 𝛿 𝑡 is the product of the probability of moving from p to 𝑝 + 𝛿 𝑝 in time 𝛿 𝑡 and the probability of moving from 𝑝 + 𝛿 𝑝 to x in time t, summed over all possible values of 𝛿 𝑝 .
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