Linear regression-based quantitative trait loci/association mapping methods such as least squares commonly assume normality of residuals. In genetics studies of plants or animals, some quantitative ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 42, No. 2 (1993), pp. 339-353 (15 pages) Under the simple linear regression model, we consider two violations of the ...

This article derives a new family of estimators, namely the minimum density power divergence estimators, as a robust generalization of the maximum likelihood estimator for the polytomous logistic ...