On estimating the heterozygosity and polymorphism information content value

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 265-271

  Shete, Sanjay ^a   Tiwari, Hemant ^a   Elston, Robert C ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterozygosity; Maximum likelihood estimator; Multinomial distribution; Polymorphism information content; Uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034084573     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2000.1452     Document Type: Article

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