An expectation-maximization-likelihood-ratio test for handling missing data: Application in experimental crosses

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1021-1031

  Niu, Tianhua ^a,b   Ding, Adam A ^c   Kreutz, Reinhold ^d   Lindpaintner, Klaus ^e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENETIC MARKERS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 15544369390     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.103.019752     Document Type: Article

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