Statistical DNA Forensics: Theory, Methods and Computation

Statistical DNA Forensics: Theory, Methods and Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-239

  Fung, Wing Kam ^a   Hu, Yue Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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DOI: 10.1002/9780470727041     Document Type: Book

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