Article ID: | iaor19932402 |
Country: | Israel |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 255 |
End Page Number: | 267 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1992 |
Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
Authors: | Ma W.T., Sandri G.vH., Sarkar S. |
Keywords: | biology |
The Luria-Delbrück distribution arises in birth-and-mutation processes in population genetics that have been systematically studied for the last fifty years. The central result reported in this paper is a new recursion relation for computing this distribution which supersedes all past results in simplicity and computational efficiency: