An Association Test for Multiple Traits Based on the Generalized Kendall’s Tau

DOI10.1198/JASA.2009.AP08387MaRDI QIDQ5255283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Heping Zhang, Ching-Ti Liu, Xue-Qin Wang

Publication date 15 June 2015

Published in Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2920220

zbMATH Keywords

family-based association test (FBAT)multivariate phenotypes ordinal trait

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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