Biostatistics 666: Introduction to the E-M Algorithm
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Objective
Introduce the E-M algorithm in genetics, demonstrating applications to allele frequency estimation for recessive alleles and ABO blood group alleles. After the lecture, students should start to develop an intuition for how the E-M algorithm handles missing data.
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Recommended Reading
Slatkin M, Excoffier L (1996) Testing for linkage disequilibrium in genotypic data using the EM algorithm. Heredity 76:377–383
