tajima.test: Test of the Neutral Mutation Hypothesis

In dwinter/Pegas: Population and Evolutionary Genetics Analysis System

Description

This function tests the neutral mutation hypothesis with Tajima's D.

Usage

tajima.test(x)

Arguments

x	a set of DNA sequences (object of class "DNAbin").

Value

A list with three numeric values:

D	Tajima's D statistic.
Pval.normal	the p-value assuming that D follows a normal distribution with mean zero and variance one.
Pval.beta	the p-value assuming that D follows a beta distribution after rescaling on [0, 1] (Tajima, 1989).

Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis

References

Tajima, F. (1989) Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism. Genetics, 123, 595–595.

Examples

require(ape)
data(woodmouse)
tajima.test(woodmouse)

dwinter/Pegas documentation built on May 15, 2019, 6:21 p.m.