Sensitivity of inferences in forensic genetics to assumptions about founding genes

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 731-763

  Green, Peter J ^a   Mortera, Julia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Coancestry coefficient; Constrained steepest descent; Criminal identification; Disputed paternity; DNA mixtures; Heterogeneous population; Identity by descent; Inbreeding; Kinship; Linear fractional programming; P lya urn; Uncertainty in allele frequencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956884719     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS235     Document Type: Article

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