Determining the number of contributors to DNA mixtures in the low-template regime: Exploring the impacts of sampling and detection effects

In forensic DNA analysis, a profile obtained from an item of evidence is compared to profiles obtained from persons of interest. The likelihood ratio approach is currently the accepted method by which to explicate the weight associated with this comparison. It is the ratio of probabilities of observing the data in an evidence profile under two mutually exclusive hypotheses. Recently there has been emphasis placed on developing tools and probabilistic algorithms that evaluate the data and compute the LR using a continuous probabilistic approach [1 –5].
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