Cochran-Armitage test versus logistic regression in the analysis of genetic association studies

Human Heredity

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-17

  Wellek, Stefan ^a,b   Ziegler, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Point and interval estimation; Score statistic; Wald statistic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COCHRAN ARMITAGE TREND TEST; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84855174755     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334085     Document Type: Article

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