Interpreting forensic DNA profiling evidence without specifying the number of contributors

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2014, Pages 269-280

  Taylor, Duncan ^a,b   Bright, Jo Anne ^c   Buckleton, John ^c  

^a FORENSIC SCIENCE SA   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MT ALBERT RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Continuous model; DNA profile interpretation; MCMC; Mixtures; Number of contributors; STRmix

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS; FORENSIC GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84907519802     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.08.014     Document Type: Article

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