forensim (version 4.3)

Statistical tools for the interpretation of forensic DNA mixtures

Description

Statistical methods and simulation tools for the interpretation of forensic DNA mixtures

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install.packages('forensim')

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4.3

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Hinda Haned

Last Published

September 15th, 2013

Functions in forensim (4.3)

Likelihood ratio for DNA evidence interpretation (2): a sophistacted version of function LR()

simumix

forensim class for DNA mixtures

mincontri

Minimum number of contributors required to explain a forensic DNA mixture

strveneto

Population study of three miniSTR loci in Veneto (Italy)

findmax

Function to find the maximum of a vector and its position

simPCR2

Polymorphism chain reaction simulation model

Cmn

The number of all possible combinations of m elements among n with repetitions

Hbsimu

A Tcl/Tk simulator of the heterozygous balance

mastermix

A Tcl/Tk graphical user interface for simple DNA mixtures resolution using allele peak heights/ or areas information

virtualClasses

Virtual classes for forensim

tabfreq constructor

A3.simu

A Tcl/Tk graphical user interface for simple DNA mixtures resolution using allele peak heights or areas when three alleles are observed at a given locus

Accessors

Accessors for forensim objects

Allele frequencies of 15 autosomal short tandem repeats loci on Chinese Tu ethnic minority group

simupopD

Simulate multi-population allele frequencies for independent loci from a reference population, following a Dirichlet model

simumix constructor

LRmixTK

GUI for the LR function

N2Exact

Calculates exact allele distribution for 2 contributors

simufreqD

Function to simulate allele frequencies for independent loci from a Dirichlet model

N2error

Calculates exact error for maximum allele count for two markers

nball

Number of alleles in a mixture

lik

Likelihood of the observed alleles at different loci in a DNA mixture conditional on the number of contributors to the mixture

The random man exclusion probability

comb

Generate all possible combinations of m elements among n with repetitions

changepop

Function to change population-related information in forensim objects

Predictive value of the maximum likelihood estimator of the number of contributors to a DNA mixture

ngm

Allele frequencies for the new generation markers NGM, for the Caucasian US population

sgmNorway

Allele frequencies for the new generation markers sgm, for the Norwegian population

likestim

Maximum likelihood estimation of the number of contributors to a forensic DNA mixture for a set of loci

wrapdataL

ML estimate of number of contributors for SNPs

A2.simu

A Tcl/Tk graphical user interface for simple DNA mixtures resolution using allele peak heights or areas information when two alleles are observed at a given locus

simPCR2TK

A Tcl/Tk graphical interface for the polymorphism chain reaction simulation model

simMixSNP

Simulates SNP mixtures

likestim.loc

Maximum likelihood estimation per locus of the number of contributors to forensic DNA mixtures.

A4.simu

A Tcl/Tk graphical user interface for simple DNA mixtures resolution using allele peak heights or areas when four alleles are observed at a given locus

simugeno

forensim class for simluated genotypes

tabfreq

forensim class for population allele frequencies

findfreq

Finds the allele frequencies of a mixture from a tabfreq object

likEvid

Likelihood of DNA evidence conditioned on a given hypothesis

dataL

Generic formula of the likelihood of the observed alleles in a mixture conditional on the number of contributors for a specific locus

naomitab

Handling of missing values in a data frame

Likelihood per locus of the observed alleles in a DNA mixture conditional on the number of contributors to the mixture

strusa

Allele frequencies for 15 autosomal short tandem repeats core loci on U.S. Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic populations.