... detecting the linkage by use of these designs has been shownto be a function of the recombination fraction (r) and the basic genetic parametersat the QTL, mamely the allelic ... determine the power of the test directly, contrary to atraditional F-test when the null hypothesis is false.However, under the assumption of constant size of sibships, the ... intercross-ing experiment and attempted to work out the power of these designs. However,because of the varying sizes of each of the nested groups, the numerator of the finaltest...