Nonparametric covariate-adjusted association tests based on the generalized kendall's tau

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 497, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Zhu, Wensheng ^a,b   Jiang, Yuan ^a,c   Zhang, Heping ^d,e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Environmental factor; Family based association test; Maximum test statistic; Multiple traits; Ordinal traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862904107     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2011.643707     Document Type: Article

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