Empirical likelihood (EL) methods constitute a class of non-parametric inference techniques that construct likelihood functions directly from observed data without specifying a full probability model.

Although epistasis is an important phenomenon in the genetics and evolution of complex traits, epistatic effects are hard to estimate. The main problem is due to the overparameterized epistatic ...

A brief description of the methods used by the SYSLIN procedure follows. For more information on these methods, see the references at the end of this chapter. There are two fundamental methods of ...