On the choice of prior density for the Bayesian analysis of pedigree structure

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-143

  Almudevar, Anthony ^a   LaCombe, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Minimum Description Length Principle; Pedigree inference

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; GENETIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84856540684     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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