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ABC as a flexible framework to estimate demography over space and time: some cons, many pros

ABC as a flexible framework to estimate demography over space and time: some cons, many pros

Abstract The analysis of genetic variation to estimate demographic and historical parameters and to quantitatively compare alternative scenarios recently gained a powerful and flexible approach: the Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC). The likelihood functions does not need to be theoretically specified, but posterior distributions can be approximated by simulation even assuming …