Evaluation of kinship identification systems based on short tandem repeat DNA profiles

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 649-668

  Corradi, Fabio ^a   Ricciardi, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Approximations; Decision analysis; DNA short tandem repeat markers; High dimensional spaces; Kinship identification; Likelihood ratio distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885422280     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12017     Document Type: Article

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