The evaluation of DNA evidence in pedigrees requiring population inference

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-440

  Corradi, Fabio ^b   Lago, Giampietro ^a   Stefanini, Federico M ^b  

^a Raggruppamento Carabinieri I   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Graphical models; Pedigrees; Weight of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141888393     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00285     Document Type: Article

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