Sampling distributions, biases, variances, and confidence intervals for genetic correlations

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 8-19

  Liu, B Hui ^a   Knapp, S J ^a   Birkes, D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootsrap; Heritability; Jackknife; Selection indices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031026339     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001220050375     Document Type: Article

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