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Estimating sib percentages from small samples of F 1 hybrid populations
Author(s) -
FREEMAN G. H.,
JOHNSON A. G.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1976.tb01734.x
Subject(s) - biology , sample size determination , statistics , population , sample (material) , mathematics , demography , sociology , chemistry , chromatography
SUMMARY Plant breeders raising F x hybrid populations cannot usually grow more than about 300 plants from one seed lot. If not more than k sibs are observed in a random sample of size N , they then need to estimate the probability that the proportion of sibs in the population is at most p. For sample sizes of not more than 300 this note describes the required statistical procedure which, though not new, may be unfamiliar to plant breeders.