Reply to Budowle, Ge, Chakraborty and Gill-King: Use of prior odds for missing persons identifications

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Biedermann, Alex ^a   Taroni, Franco ^a   Margot, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Missing persons identifications; Prior probabilities

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; DNA DETERMINATION; FORENSIC GENETICS; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84862164955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-3-2     Document Type: Letter

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