Message-ID: <alpine.LMD.2.00.1401241355330.7150@orpheus.qimr.edu.au>
Date: 2014-01-24T04:01:40Z
From: David Duffy
Subject: distribution for ratios?
In-Reply-To: <52E0E9C9.8060900@mnhn.fr>
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Celine Teplitsky wrote:
> we are trying to run a meta-analysis on factors affecting heritability in
> MCMCglmm.
I'm surprised no-one has suggested a bivariate analysis of V_g and
V_e (gamma, or even gaussian).
"... the so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of
those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for
lack of a more thorough analysis of the data."
| David Duffy (MBBS PhD)
| email: David.Duffy at qimrberghofer.edu.au ph: INT+61+7+3362-0217 fax: -0101
| Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research
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