Testing the equality of twin correlations with multinomial outcomes

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 341-349

  Bartfay, E ^a,b   Donner, A ^a   Klar, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWINS; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SMOKING; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0033390638     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003480099007605     Document Type: Article

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