pegas (version 0.10)

tajima.test: Test of the Neutral Mutation Hypothesis

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).

References

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

Examples

# NOT RUN {
require(ape)
data(woodmouse)
tajima.test(woodmouse)
# }