Testing Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium: An objective Bayesian analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-74

  Consonni, Guido ^a   Moreno, Elìas ^b   Venturini, Sergio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Hardy Weinberg equilibrium; Intrinsic prior; Model posterior probability; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOTYPE; HARDY WEINBERG DISTRIBUTION LAW; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 78650780662     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4084     Document Type: Article

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