Inclusion Probabilities and Dropout
- 1 September 2010
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Vol. 55 (5), 1171-1173
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01446.x
Abstract
Recent discussions on a forensic discussion group highlighted the prevalence of a practice in the application of inclusion probabilities when dropout is possible that is of significant concern. In such cases, there appears to be an unpublished practice of calculation of an inclusion probability only for those loci at which the profile of interest (hereafter the suspect) is fully included among the alleles present in the crime scene sample and to omit those loci at which the suspect has alleles that are not fully represented among the alleles in the mixture. The danger is that this approach may produce apparently strong evidence against a surprisingly large fraction of noncontributors. In this paper, the risk associated with the approach of ignoring loci with discordant alleles is assessed by simulation.Keywords
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