Maximum likelihood estimation of sibling correlations in the analysis of family data

DOI10.1016/0378-3758(91)90086-TzbMath0716.62110MaRDI QIDQ753375

D. Kharzeev

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normality; multivariate normal populations; genetic epidemiology; unbalanced data; arterial blood pressure data; large sample variances and covariances; maximum likelihood estimation of sibling correlations; numerical maximization of the likelihood function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H10: Multivariate distribution of statistics

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

62H12: Estimation in multivariate analysis

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

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

Uses Software

• IMSL Numerical Libraries