Use of prior odds for missing persons identifications

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Budowle, Bruce ^a   Ge, Jianye ^a   Chakraborty, Ranajit ^a   Gill King, Harrell ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; AUTOPSY; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; MASS DISASTER; MISSING PERSON; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VICTIM; WITNESS;

EID: 84862163915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-2-15     Document Type: Note

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