This directory contains the paper:
Felsenstein, J. 1992. Estimating effective population size from
population samples of sequences: a bootstrap Monte Carlo approach.
Genetical Research 59: 139-147 (December issue).
[note -- the method proposed in this paper is wrong. It has been shown to
give a biased estimate of theta. The paper by Felsenstein,
Yamato, and Kuhner corrects this. That paper
is available here in directory
http://evolution.gs.washington.edu/papers/metro
and the program to implement it is
the LAMARC package. ]
The files in this directory are:
monte.tex The manuscript as a LaTeX input file
monte.ps The manuscript in Postscript
monte.pdf The manuscript as a PDF
table1.doc Table 1 in Microsoft Word format
table2.doc Table 2 in Microsoft Word format
fig1.idraw Figure 1 as Postscript from the "idraw" drawing program
fig2.idraw Figure 2 as Postscript from the "idraw" drawing program
fig3.idraw Figure 3 as Postscript from the "idraw" drawing program
fig4.idraw Figure 4 as Postscript from the "idraw" drawing program
fig6.idraw Figure 6 as Postscript from the "idraw" drawing program
fig8.idraw Figure 8 as Postscript from the "idraw" drawing program
fig10.idraw Figure 10 as Postscript from the "idraw" drawing program
The other figures were produced on MacDraw and are not posted here.
PLEASE NOTE -- The method proposed in this paper has since been shown to
be incorrect. In 1995 (Kuhner, Yamato Felsenstein) we explained why and
proposed an alternative Hastings/Metropolis method that gives correct
results. It is of the same general form as the one proposed here but
has some important changes to eliminate the problem of the likelihood
curve having infinite area under it, which was the source of the problem.
J.F.
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