Statistical inference for familial disease clusters

Biometrics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 481-491

  Yu, Chang ^a   Zelterman, Daniel ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascertainment sampling; Binomial distribution; Exact inference; Exchangeable random variables; Multivariate discrete distributions; Sparse categorical data

Indexed keywords

ASCERTAINMENT SAMPLING; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CATEGORICAL DATA; CLUSTERINGS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC-STUDY; EXACT INFERENCE; EXCHANGEABLE RANDOM VARIABLE; MULTIVARIATE DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS; SPARSE CATEGORICAL DATA; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036712222     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2002.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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