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Choice of Scores in Trend Tests for Case-Control Studies of Candidate-Gene Associations

✍ Scribed by Gang Zheng; Boris Freidlin; Zhaohai Li; Joseph L. Gastwirth

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
125 KB
Volume
45
Category
Article
ISSN
0323-3847

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