Overdispersion in allelic counts and θ-correction in forensic genetics

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 200-210

  Tvedebrink, Torben ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

correction; Confidence interval; Dirichlet multinomial distribution; Forensic genetics; Maximum likelihood estimate; Subpopulation

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRECTION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SUBPOPULATION;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 77956870256     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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