Significance and impotence: Towards a balanced view of the null and the alternative hypotheses in marker selection for plant breeding

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-79

  Moerkerke, B ^a   Goetghebeur, E ^a,b   De Riek, J ^c   Roldan Ruiz I ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Centrum voor Landbouwkundig Onderzoek Gent CLO / Centre de Recherches Agronomiques Gand   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alternative p value; Genetic association; Genetic marker selection; Marker assisted plant breeding; Sequential marker selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645090934     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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