 Wright–Fisher diffusion (source code)

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= Wright–Fisher diffusion
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The neutral one-dimensional Wright–Fisher diffusion records a proportion in $[0,1]$, with absorbing endpoints, zero drift and generator $Lf(x)=x(1-x)f''(x)/2$. Its conditional variance rate is largest near one-half and vanishes at fixation. Mutation or selection variants add drift and must be specified separately.

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