Population Genetics & Statistics
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Literature
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- Accounting for uncertainty in forensic calculations, Amy D. Anderson, Gary W. Beecham, Jr. and Bruce S. Weir, Program in Statistical Genetics Department of Statistics North Carolina State University
- Statistical and Population Genetics Issues Affecting the Evaluation of the Frequency of Occurrence of DNA Profiles Calculated From Pertinent Population Database(s), DNA Advisory Board, February 23, 2000, Forensic Science Communications, July 2000 Volume 2 Number 3
- Teaching Statistics Using Forensic Examples, Wing K. Fung, The University of Hong Kong, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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- Allele Frequencies for 15 Autosomal STR Loci on U.S. Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic Populations, John M. Butler Ph.D.; Richard Schoske M.A.; Peter M. Vallone Ph.D.;Janette W. Redman; and Margaret C. Kline M.S., J Forensic Sci, July 2003, Vol. 48, No. 4
- Evaluation of Standard Error and Confidence Interval of Estimated Multilocus Genotype Probabilities, and Their Implications in DNA Forensics, Ranajit Chakraborty, M. R. Srinivasan, and Stephen P. Daiger, Am. J. Hum. Genet. 52:60-70, 1993