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THE GENETIC ANALYSIS OF CONTINUOUS VARIATION: A COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS APPLICABLE TO HUMAN DATA
Author(s) -
Eaves L. J.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.157
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 2044-8317
pISSN - 0007-1102
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8317.1970.tb00443.x
Subject(s) - heritability , statistics , variation (astronomy) , dominance (genetics) , mathematics , data set , econometrics , biology , evolutionary biology , genetics , physics , astrophysics , gene
A method of computer simulation for comparing the relative efficiencies of alternative experimental designs is applied to the study of the efficiency with which broad heritability can be estimated and the two main sources of environmental variation separated in data from human populations. Two minimal sets of data are compared with respect to these criteria and the effects of varying the proportions of the groups of relatives comprising a set are investigated. The relationship between efficiency, the level of broad heritability and the degree of dominance is noted, and the results related to those of a previous study.