A note on the statistical power in extended twin designs

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-158

  Posthuma, Daniëlle ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heritability; Methodology; Sample size; Sibship size; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; SAMPLE; SIBLING; STATISTICS; TWINS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033845395     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001959306025     Document Type: Article

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