On estimation of linkage test power

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 355-366

  Ginsburg, E Kh ^a   Axenovich, T I ^b   Goodman, D W ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

likelihood ratio test; linkage analysis; simple and composite hypotheses; type I and type II errors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029759424     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2272(1996)13:4<355::AID-GEPI4>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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