Overdispersion in allelic counts and \(\theta\)-correction in forensic genetics

DOI10.1016/j.tpb.2010.07.002zbMath1403.92158OpenAlexW2031878901WikidataQ46753519 ScholiaQ46753519MaRDI QIDQ1630955

Torben Tvedebrink

Publication date: 5 December 2018

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2010.07.002

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalmaximum likelihood estimateDirichlet-multinomial distribution\(\theta\)-correctionforensic geneticssubpopulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10)

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Uses Software

• dirmult
• bootlib

Cites Work

• Weight of the evidence of genetic investigations of ancestry informative markers
• Drawing inferences about the coancestry coefficient
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• Sensitivity of inferences in forensic genetics to assumptions about founding genes
• Likelihood-based inference for genetic correlation coefficients
• The rarity of DNA profiles
• Bootstrapping Clustered Data
• Fisher Information Matrix of the Dirichlet-multinomial Distribution
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