Linear mixed models are increasingly used for the analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of binary phenotypes because they can efficiently and robustly account for population ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 57, No. 1 (2008), pp. 75-87 (13 pages) Complex survey sampling is often used to sample a fraction of a large finite ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This note explores variance estimation of a combined ratio estimator from a purely model-based viewpoint. It shows that given a sample ...

Models to estimate heritability (twin or SNP h2) are typically linear models that can be seen as extensions of the simple linear model between two variables, from which one estimates a correlation.