An investigation into the performance of methods for adjusting for sampling uncertainty in DNA likelihood ratio calculations

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 512-516

  Curran, James M ^a   Buckleton, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MT ALBERT RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

DNA; Forensic; Sampling uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EXAMINATION; GENE LOCUS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; DNA; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 80052267554     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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