The use of likelihood-based confidence intervals in genetic models

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 113-120

  Neale, Michael C ^a   Miller, Michael B ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

binary data; boundaries; Confidence intervals; covariance structure; matrix algebra; Mx; nonlinear constraints; quantitative data; statistics; structural equation modeling; threshold models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; GENETIC MODEL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; TWINS;

EID: 0030998439     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025681223921     Document Type: Article

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