Accurate and flexible power calculations on the spot: Applications to genomic research

Statistics and its Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 353-358

  Tiwari, Hemant K ^a   Birkner, Thomas ^a   Moondan, Ankur ^b   Zhang, Shiju ^c   Page, Grier P ^d   Patki, Amit ^a   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Research Triangle   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Asymptotics; GXG; Haplotype; Linkage; Phrases: power; Sample size; TDT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864390963     PISSN: 19387989     EISSN: 19387997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/sii.2011.v4.n3.a9     Document Type: Article

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