An alternative foundation for the planning and evaluation of linkage analysis I. Decoupling 'error probabilities' from 'measures of evidence'

Human Heredity

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 166-188

  Strug, Lisa J ^a,c   Hodge, Susan E ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidential paradigm; Linkage analysis; Multiple testing; Parameter misspecification

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GAMETE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR FAMILY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIBLING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; PROBABILITY;

EID: 33748508166     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094709     Document Type: Article

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