On a misconception about irreducibility of the single-site gibbs sampler in a pedigree application

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 993-996

  Cannings, C ^a,b   Sheehan, N A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALLELE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOTYPE; LETTER; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORY; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0036811155     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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