Inference for lethal gene estimation with application in plants

Biometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 451-462

  Lee, Jae Kyun ^a   Nordheim, Erik V ^a,b   Kang, Hyun ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial method; Deleterious genes; Hierarchical modeling of likelihood; Lethal equivalents; Lindeberg Feller central limit theorem; Marginalized method of moments

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; COMBINATORIAL METHOD; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; DELETERIOUS GENE; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; HIERARCHICAL MODELING OF LIKELIHOOD; LETHAL EQUIVALENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINDEBERG-FELLER CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; MARGINALIZED METHOD OF MOMENT;

GENES;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETHAL GENE; MATING; MODEL; PLANT; RECESSIVE GENE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 8944259905     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2532886     Document Type: Article

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