Quantitative Traits: Measuring a Trait on a Continuous Scale
Entry node for the sub-domain. The seed study treats voice as 72 continuous acoustic measures rather than as categories, and everything downstream — variance decomposition, regression, heritability — is only defined for a continuous measurement. Students arriving from the acoustics half need the word for what they have been measuring.
Questions this Concept answers
- Why does treating voice pitch as a continuous measurement, rather than as high and low categories, matter for the analyses that follow?
Complex traits
Complex traits are phenotypes shaped by many genes together with the environment, such as height, blood pressure, and body-mass index. The article distinguishes quantitative traits, measured on a con…