Measuring Heterogeneity in Forensic Databases Using Hierarchical Bayes Models: Computational Method

Kathryn Roeder, Michael Escobar, Joseph B. Kadane and Ivan Balazs

Abstract:

This technical report discusses the computational methods used in the paper ``Measuring Heterogeneity in Forensic Databases Using Hierarchical Bayes Models''. It supplies details of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique employed.

Keywords: DNA fingerprint, Gibbs Sampling, Markov Chain Monte Carlo.

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