Dodson, CTJ (2010) An inhomogeneous stochastic rate process for evolution from states in an information geometric neighbourhood of uniform fitness. [MIMS Preprint]
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Abstract
This study elaborates some examples of a simple evolutionary stochastic rate process where the population rate of change depends on the distribution of properties---so different cohorts change at different rates. We investigate the effect on the evolution arising from parametrized perturbations of uniformity for the initial inhomogeneity. The information geometric neighbourhood system yields also solutions for a wide range of other initial inhomogeneity distributions, including approximations to truncated Gaussians of arbitrarily small variance and distributions with pronounced extreme values. It is found that, under quite considerable alterations in the shape and variance of the initial distribution of inhomogeneity in unfitness, the decline of the mean does change markedly with the variation in starting conditions, but the net population evolution seems surprisingly stable.
| Item Type: | MIMS Preprint |
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| Additional Information: | Invited paper at 3$^{rd}$ Conference on Information Geometry and its Applications, Max-Planck-Institut f\"{u}r Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig, 2-6 August 2010. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Evolution, inhomogeneous rate process, information geometry, entropy, uniform distribution, log-gamma distribution. |
| Subjects: | MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 62 Statistics MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 92 Biology and other natural sciences |
| Depositing User: | Prof CTJ Dodson |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2017 18:18 |
| URI: | https://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/id/eprint/1400 |
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