Statistical analyses of monozygotic and dizygotic twinning rates

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1107-1111

  Fellman, Johan ^a,b  

^a FOLKHÄLSAN INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Finland)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

land Islands; Confidence interval; Maximum likelihood estimation; Parameter transformation; Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SEX RATIO; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84888863182     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2013.65     Document Type: Article

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