Covariance components models for longitudinal family data

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1063-1077

  Burton, Paul R ^a   Scurrah, Katrina J ^a,b   Tobin, Martin D ^a   Palmer, Lyle J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Family studies; Genetic epidemiology; Gibbs sampling; Longitudinal; MCMC

Indexed keywords

HEALTH AND DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILY SIZE; FAMILY STUDY; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FAMILY HEALTH; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 27144491868     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi069     Document Type: Article

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