Inbreeding Effective Size
Alternatively, the effective population size may be defined by noting how the average inbreeding coefficient changes from one generation to the next, and then defining Ne as the size of the idealized population that has the same change in average inbreeding coefficient as the population under consideration. The presentation follows Kempthorne (1957).
For the idealized population, the inbreeding coefficients follow the recurrence equation
Using Panmictic Index (1 − F) instead of inbreeding coefficient, we get the approximate recurrence equation
The difference per generation is
The inbreeding effective size can be found by solving
This is
although researchers rarely use this equation directly.
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