Multilocus linkage analysis by blocked Gibbs sampling

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-269

  Thomas, Alun ^a,b   Gutin, Alexander ^a   Abkevich, Victor ^a   Bansal, Aruna ^b,c  

^a Myriad Genetics Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b U of UT   (United States)

^c Genetic Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic linkage; Graphical models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Peeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042226484     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008947712763     Document Type: Article

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