Comments on the statistical aspects of the NRC's report on DNA typing.

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The goal of the NRC report on DNA typing was to answer a "crescendo of questions concerning DNA typing," many of them in the areas of population genetics and statistics. Unfortunately, few of these questions were answered adequately. In lieu of answering these questions, the panel proposed another conservative method of forensic inference, the "ceiling principle." Aside from its extreme conservativeness, this new...

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