Bayesian nonparametric analysis of Kingman’s coalescent

Kingman’s coalescent is one of the most popular models in population genetics. It describes the genealogy of a population whose genetic composition evolves in time according to the Wright–Fisher model, or suitable approximations of it belonging to the broad class of Fleming–Viot processes. Ancestral inference under Kingman’s coalescent has had much attention in the literature, both in practical data analysis, and from a theoretical and …