non-parametric QTL analysis

[Douglas Easton]

Paul,

You should contact the MapMaker Developer (Ken Manley at Roswell Park
Cancer Institute). He is working on a new version.

-DP Easton

Paul Denny wrote:

>  Hi
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> I'm trying to find a software package - preferably MacOS or possibly
> WinNT (or at a stretch, UNIX) which performs non-parametric
> statistical analysis e.g. an ordinal analysis. We have a phenotype
> which looks nothing like the typical "normal" distribution - it's kind
>
> of a skewed bimodal. The only thing we've tried so far is MapMaker QTL
> v1.9 which uses a non-parametric statistic, but would like
> to try some alternative approaches.
>
> Paul
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