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Search Publications by: Sarah Riman (Assoc)

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Understanding the characteristics of sequence-based single-source DNA profiles

November 9, 2019
Author(s)
Sarah Riman, Hariharan K. Iyer, Lisa A. Borsuk, Peter M. Vallone
The sequencing of STR markers provides additional information present in the underlying sequence variation that is typically masked by traditional fragment-based genotyping. However, the interpretation of STR profiles generated by targeted sequencing

Are Reported Likelihood Ratios Well Calibrated?

October 8, 2019
Author(s)
Peter Vallone, Sarah Riman, Jan Hannig
In this work we introduce a new statistical methodology for empirically examining the validity of model-based Likelihood Ratio (LR) systems by applying a general statistical inference approach called generalized fiducial inference [1]. LR systems are