Effect of Winsorization on Power and Type 1 Error of Variance Components and Related Methods of QTL Detection

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 153-159

  Shete, Sanjay ^a   Beasley, T Mark ^b   Etzel, Carol J ^a   Fernández, José R ^b,c,d   Chen, Jianfang ^a   Allison, David B ^b,c,d   Amos, Christopher I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Section on Statistical Genetics   (United States)

^c Div of Physiology and Metabolism

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Haseman Elston; Linkage; Power; Type 1 error; Variance components; Winsorization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHROMOSOME MAPPING; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SIBLINGS;

EID: 1442332577     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000013729.26354.da     Document Type: Article

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