21 citations · 33 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
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math.PR2010★ 21 cited
There's plenty of time for evolution
Herbert S. Wilf, Warren J. Ewens
Objections to Darwinian evolution are often based on the time required to carry out the necessary mutations. Seemingly, exponential numbers of mutations are needed. We show that su…
math.PR2010
Kingman and mathematical population genetics
Warren J. Ewens, Geoffrey A. Watterson
Mathematical population genetics is only one of Kingman's many research interests. Nevertheless, his contribution to this field has been crucial, and moved it in several important…
math.ST2006★ 12 cited
Computing the distribution of the maximum in balls-and-boxes problems, with application to clusters of disease cases
Warren J. Ewens, Herbert S. Wilf
We present a rapid method for the exact calculation of the cumulative distribution function of the maximum of multinomially distributed random variables. The method runs in time $O…