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Activity Number:
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446
- New Statistical Methods in Evolutionary Biology
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Biometrics Section
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Abstract #300317
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Title:
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Neutrality Test on Evolutionary Tree Topologies: Where Statistics, Physics, and Geometric Analysis Meet
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Author(s):
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Dan D. Erdmann-Pham and Yun S. Song* and Jonathan Terhorst
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Companies:
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University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley and University of Michigan
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Keywords:
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Abstract:
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Testing for selective neutrality is an important problem in evolutionary biology. Given an inferred evolutionary tree, a potentially powerful neutrality test can be designed based on its shape (or topology), but theoretically characterizing the corresponding probability distribution is often very challenging. In this talk, I will introduce a neutrality test that is closely related to testing the uniformity of a randomly partitioned interval (which appears in various context, including statistics, physics, and geometric analysis), and describe our new theoretical results on this classical problem.
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Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
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