Equation 16 · Part 1 · Einstein's Random Walk and the Mathematics of Genetic Drift
Symbol N
What this part means
N is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
N is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol N→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
…a real, structured population rather than an idealized one: effective population size, a count of breeding individuals corrected for unequal sex ratios, variable family size, and population subdivision, substituted for N wherever the equations call for the census size [ 5 ] . Fisher corrected his own treatment in 1930, this time building explicitly on the Fokker-Planck equation borrowed from physics [ 4 ] .
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