BLOCK

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Full Name

Blocking Gibbs sampler for pedigree analysis

Version

2.0.0 (Dec 1996)

Description

the programs allow you to perform general pedigree analysis on a general pedigree with any number of loops. It also allows you to perform two-point linkage analysis on a general pedigree with an arbitrary number of alleles.

Author

Claus Skaanning Jensen (email: claus@cs.auc.dk) (Aalborg University, Denmark)

URL

  • http://www.cs.auc.dk/~claus/block.html
  • http://hpcio.cit.nih.gov/lserver/BLOCK.html

  • ftp://ftp.cs.auc.dk/pub/packages/block/current

    OS

    MS-DOS, Linux, UNIX(Solaris, Irix 64, AIX 3.2.5, DEC alpha)

    EXE

    block, theta

    Reference

    Jensen, Kong and Kjaerulff, “Blocking-Gibbs Sampling in Very Large Probabilistic Expert Systems”, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 647-666 (1995).