Re: Calculating The Joint Probability Of False Paternity Events [FPE]

In a message dated 8/14/2007 2:07:20 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
j.s.plant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

If you look at my Nomina 28 paper, you will
see that I discuss the Y-DNA evidence *in conjunction with* the name
distribution data.>>
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You don't discuss it at the proper level. You launch into the data as if it
shows facts without discussing the data in the wider context of how the
volunteers were recruited, how that might affect what dataset has been gathered,
etc. You don't discuss that aspect because it would show immediately that
the set is skewed.





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