Equation 24 · Part 1 · Evolutionary Biology and Ecology in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide
Symbol S
What this part means
the sample size.
Its job in the formula
S is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
where is the mean squared correlation of allele frequencies across pairs of loci observed in the sample, and S is the sample size, with the 1/S term correcting for the sampling bias that a finite number of genotyped individuals introduces into even when the true population is large.
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where is the mean squared correlation of allele frequencies across pairs of loci observed in the sample, and S is the sample size, with the 1/S term correcting for the sampling bias that a finite number of genotyped individuals introduces into even when the true population is large. The practical consequence practitioners have to internalize: is estimated with noise from a finite…
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