Dermatoglyphic traits in a sample of twins were analyzed to estimate the resemblance between MZ and DZ twins and to evaluate the mode of inheritance by using the maximum likelihood-based Variance ...

In this lecture, the univariate twin model is extended to the bivariate twin model. It is explained how the variance in two traits is decomposed into additive genetic, non-additive genetic, and ...

Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone microarchitecture that result in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture. 1 Positive family ...

The well-developed theory of exponential families of distributions is applied to the problem of fitting the univariate histograms and discrete bivariate frequency distributions that often arise in the ...