Assume That You Are Studying a Trait Determined by a Number

question 17

Short Answer

Assume that you are studying a trait determined by a number of polygenes.If there are seven phenotypic categories,how many genes are probably involved?

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Definitions:

Bootstrap Confidence Interval

A statistical technique for estimating the uncertainty of a parameter by resampling with replacement.

Percentile Method

A statistical calculation used to determine the value below which a given percentage of observations in a data set falls.

Resamples

The process of drawing repeated samples from observed data, with the aim of estimating a population parameter.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that quantifies the variability or dispersion of a sample mean relative to the true population mean.