Tests for establishing compatibility of an observed genotype distribution with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in the case of a biallelic locus

Biometrics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 694-703

  Wellek, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equivalence testing; Euclidean distance; Exact computation; Exponential family; Hardy Weinberg curve; Invariance; Power function; UMPU test

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES;

EQUIVALENCE TESTING; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; EXACT COMPUTATIONS; EXPONENTIAL FAMILY; GENETIC EQUILIBRIUM; GOODNESS OF FIT; HARDY-WEINBERG CURVE; HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM; POWER FUNCTIONS; UNIFORMLY MOST POWERFUL UNBIASED TEST;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

GENOTYPE; MODELING; TESTING METHOD;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CALCULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPATIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS;

EID: 4444302308     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00219.x     Document Type: Article

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