Paper 2, Section II, J
Part II, 2014
(i) Explain what the Moran model and the infinite alleles model are. State Ewens' sampling formula for the distribution of the allelic frequency spectrum in terms of where with denoting the mutation rate per individual and the population size.
Let be the number of allelic types in a sample of size . Give, without justification, an expression for in terms of .
(ii) Let and be as above. Show that for we have that
for some constant that does not depend on .
Show that, given , the distribution of the allelic frequency spectrum does not depend on .
Show that the value of which maximises is the one for which .