A robust QTL mapping procedure

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 978-989

  Zou, Fei ^a   Nie, Lei ^b   Wright, Fred A ^a   Sen, Pranab K ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

GEE; Generalized least squares estimate; Quantitative trait; Weighted least squares estimate; Wilcoxon Mann Whitney statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949088689     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.06.009     Document Type: Article

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