BALDING-NICHOLS MODEL

The Balding-Nichols model is a statistical description of the allele frequencies in the components of a sub-divided population. With background allele frequency $p$ the allele frequencies in sub-populations separated by Wright's $F\_\{st\}$ $F$ are distributed according to independent draws from
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where $B$ is the Beta distribution
The model is due to David Balding and Richard Nichols and is widely used in the forensic analysis of DNA profiles.