HWD {HardyWeinberg}R Documentation

Compute disequilibrium statistic D

Description

Function HWD computes Weir's disequilibrium coefficient D.

Usage

HWD(X)

Arguments

X

a vector of genotype counts (AA, AB, BB)

Value

Returns the disequilibrium coefficient

Author(s)

Jan Graffelman jan.graffelman@upc.edu

References

Weir, B.S. (1996) Genetic data analysis II. Sinauer Associates, Massachusetts. See Chapter3.

See Also

HWf HWChisq

Examples

x <- c(MM=298,MN=489,NN=213)
D <- HWD(x)
cat("Disequilibrium coefficient: ",D,"\n")

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