On the Properties of Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Familial Correlations under Variable Sibship Size

DOI10.2307/2531586MaRDI QIDQ3489283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Wette, Matthew K. McGue, D. C. Rao, C. Robert Cloninger

Publication date 1988

Published in Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2531586

zbMATH Keywords

familial correlationsFisher's z-transformationmaximum likelihoodMonte Carlo methodvariable sibship size

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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