A Thurstonian model for quantitative genetic analysis of ranks: A Bayesian approach

Genetics

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1613-1624

  Gianola, Daniel ^a,b,c   Simianer, Henner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33751336351     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.060673     Document Type: Article

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