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An extension of path analysis revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Alexander Gimelfarb
Alexander Gimelfarb
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntingdon Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

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A method for analysing probabilistic models representing an extension of path analysis, and a model of mixed homogamy based on this method were introduced recently (Rao, Morton & Cloninger, 1979; Cloninger, 1980). However, constraints imposed by the method on linear models, or a rationale for and implications of the mixed homogamy model have not been clearly stated.

A mathematical treatment of the extension of path analysis and of the mixed homogamy model is presented in this paper. Constraints on linear models imposed by the extension are obtained. It is demonstrated that the mixed homogamy model, when applied to analysing nuclear families in a population, implies the following mating system in the population: some individuals choose their mates strictly on the basis of group membership, others choose their mates strictly on the basis of phenotype, and no individual chooses a mate on the basis of both group membership and phenotype.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , August 1984 , pp. 87 - 97
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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