Effects of censoring on parameter estimates and power in genetic modeling

Twin Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 659-669

  Derks, Eske M ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWINS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SLEEP DISORDERS; TWIN STUDIES; TWINS;

EID: 10444273131     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/1369052042663832     Document Type: Article

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