A signal model for forensic DNA mixtures

Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 429-433

  Mönich, Ullrich J ^a   Grgicak, Catherine ^b   Cadambe, Viveck ^c   Wu, Jason Yonglin ^a   Wellner, Genevieve ^b   Duffy, Ken ^d   Medard, Muriel ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

DNA FINGERPRINTS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MIXED SAMPLES; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; SHORT TANDEM REPEATS; SIGNAL DECONVOLUTION; SIGNAL MODELING;

ADDITIVE NOISE;

EID: 84940550596     PISSN: 10586393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACSSC.2014.7094478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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