A general approach to power calculation for relationship testing

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 186-190

  Egeland, Thore ^a,b   Pinto, Nadia ^c   Vigeland, Magnus Dehli ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Forensics; paramlink; Power of exclusion; R; Relationship testing

Indexed keywords

GENETIC MARKER;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PATERNITY; PEDIGREE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PATERNITY; PEDIGREE;

EID: 84894181965     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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