Box-Cox transformation for QTL mapping

Genetica

Volumn 128, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 133-143

  Yang, Runqing ^a   Yi, Nengjun ^b   Xu, Shizhong ^c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Maximum likelihood; QTL

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; METHODOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 33749641003     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-005-5577-z     Document Type: Article

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