Using importance sampling to improve simulation in linkage analysis

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Ängquist, Lars ^a   Hössjer, Ola ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Change of probability measure; Cost adjusted relative efficiency; Exponential tilting; Genome wide significance; Importance sampling; Marker information; Nonparametric linkage analysis; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; COST; HYPOTHESIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

EID: 18544367812     PISSN: 15446115     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1049     Document Type: Article

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