Weight-of-Evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles

Weight-of-Evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-184

  Balding, David J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1002/9780470867693     Document Type: Book

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