Bias and precision in QST estimates: Problems and some solutions

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1331-1339

  O'Hara, R B ^a   Merila J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FST INDEX; GENETIC CODE; MARKER GENE; PARAMETRIC TEST; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QST INDEX; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 32544451095     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.044545     Document Type: Article

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