Comparison of estimators for measures of linkage disequilibrium

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Scholz, Markus ^a   Hasenclever, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dirichlet prior; Estimation problem; Measures of linkage disequilibrium; Two by two contingency tables

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOME; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77249171190     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1162     Document Type: Article

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