Estimating the correlation among siblings.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1993.tb00904.x

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Estimating the correlation among siblings.

Annals of human genetics - 1 Oct 1993

Keen K J

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Beginning with Galton, various authors have proposed non-iterative estimators of the correlation coefficient that measure the degree of similarity among siblings. However, these estimators lose efficiency appreciably for certain ranges of values of the correlation coefficient. An estimator formed...

Topics

Analysis of Variance
Blood Pressure
Female
Humans
Male
Monte Carlo Method
Nuclear Family
Phenotype

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