Watterson estimator

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Tajima%27s_D/Te7mnb6a">Tajima's D</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Coupon_collector%27s_problem/owu3Q7gp">Coupon collector's problem</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ewens_sampling_formula/4mdbTdTj">Ewens sampling formula</a></li></ul>

<ul><li>Watterson, G.A. (1975), "On the number of segregating sites in genetical models without recombination.", <i>Theoretical Population Biology</i>, 7 (2): 256–276, <a href="/facts/Bibcode_(identifier)/9HtdQSGB">Bibcode</a>:<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975TPBio...7..256W">1975TPBio...7..256W</a>, <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0040-5809%2875%2990020-9">10.1016/0040-5809(75)90020-9</a>, <a href="/facts/PMID_(identifier)/JlHAvMHt">PMID</a> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1145509">1145509</a></li>
<li>McVean, Gil;  Awadalla, Philip; Fearnhead, Paul (2002) "A Coalescent-Based Method for Detecting and Estimating Recombination From Gene Sequences", <i>Genetics</i>, 160, 1231–1241.</li></ul>

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<li id="fn:2"><p>Rohlfs, Rori V.; Huerta-Sánchez, Emilia; Catalan, Francisca; Castellanos, Edgar; Thu, Ricky; Reyes, Rochelle-Jan; Barragan, Ezequiel Lopez; López, Andrea; Dung, Samantha Kristin (2019-02-01). "Illuminating Women's Hidden Contribution to Historical Theoretical Population Genetics". Genetics. 211 (2): 363–366. doi:10.1534/genetics.118.301277. ISSN 0016-6731. PMC 6366915. PMID 30733376. <a href="http://www.genetics.org/content/211/2/363" target="_blank">http://www.genetics.org/content/211/2/363</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Luca Ferretti, Luca (2015). "A generalized Watterson estimator for next-generation sequencing: From trios to autopolyploids" (PDF). Theoretical Population Biology. 100: 79–87. arXiv:1309.4380. Bibcode:2015TPBio.100...79F. doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2015.01.001. PMID 25595553. <a href="https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/artpub/2015/188173/thepopbio_a2015m3v100p79.pdf" target="_blank">https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/artpub/2015/188173/thepopbio_a2015m3v100p79.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Watterson estimator