Population attributable fraction as a measure of heritability in dichotomous twin data

DOI10.1080/03610918.2011.592246MaRDI QIDQ4906423zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Viswanathan Ramakrishnan, Leroy R. Thacker

Publication date 11 February 2013

Published in Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3884831

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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• Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Attributable Fraction from Logistic Models

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