Expected monotonicity - A desirable property for evidence measures?

Human Heredity

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 151-166

  Hodge, Susan E ^a,c   Vieland, Veronica J ^b  

^a Columbia School of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence; Likelihood ratios; Likelihoods; Posterior probability of linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; EXPECTED MONOTONICITY; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

GENETIC LINKAGE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 77954678017     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313789     Document Type: Article

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