Estimating drop-out probabilities in forensic DNA samples: A simulation approach to evaluate different models

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 525-531

  Haned, H ^a   Egeland, T ^b   Pontier, D ^a   Pne, L ^c   Gill, P ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Centre Universitaire des Saints Pères   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drop out; Logistic regression; PCR; Simulations; STR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ALLELE DROP OUT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DIPLOIDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TEMPLATE; EVALUATION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DNA; FORENSIC GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROBABILITY;

EID: 80052266445     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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