A note on estimating the posterior density of a quantitative trait locus from a Markov chain Monte Carlo sample

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 369-376

  Hoti, Fabian J ^a   Sillanp, Mikko J ^a   Holmstrm, Lasse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Kernel density estimation; Mapping accuracy; Posterior distribution; QTL mapping

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DENSITY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HISTOGRAM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0036241779     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.01125     Document Type: Article

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