mispitools1.2.0 package

Missing Person Identification Tools

LRcol

Likelihood ratio for color variable

LRcolors

Simulate LR values considering H1 and H2

LRage

Likelihood ratio for age variable

bidirectionalKL

Kullback-Leibler Divergence Calculation for Genetic Markers

Cmodel

Epsilon hair color matrix

combLR

Combine LRs: a function for combining LRs obtained from simulations.

compute_LRs_colors

Compute Likelihood Ratios based con color characteristics

conditionedProp

Compute Conditioned Proportions for UPs

CondPlot

General plot for condiionted probabilities and LR combining variables

CPT_MP

Missing person based conditioned probability

CPT_POP

Population based conditioned probability

deplot

Decision making plot: a function for plotting false positive and false...

DeT

Decision Threshold: a function for computing likelihood ratio decision...

getfreqs

Function for getting STR allele frequencies from different world popul...

klPIE

Calculate Kullback-Leibler Divergence with Base 10 Logarithm

ate.Rd

Likelihood ratio for birth date in missing person searches

ist.Rd

Likelihood ratio distribution: a function for plotting expected log10(...

LRsex

Likelihood ratio for sex variable

makeMPprelim

Make preliminary investigation MP data simulations: a function for obt...

makePOIgen

Make POIs gen: a function for obtaining a database with genetic inform...

makePOIprelim

Make preliminary investigation POI/UHR data simulations: a function fo...

mispiApp

Missing person shiny app

mispitools-package

mispitools: Missing Person Identification Tools

multi_kl_divergence

Multi-dataset Kullback-Leibler Divergence Calculation

postSim

postSim: A function for simulating posterior odds

refProp

Generate a dataframe with hair colour, skin colour, eye colour and the...

simLR2dataframe

simLR2dataframe: A function for extracting LR distributions in a dataf...

simLRgen

Simulate likelihoods ratio (LRs) based on genetic data: a function for...

simLRprelim

Simulate likelihoods ratio (LRs) based on preliminary investigation da...

simRef

Generate Reference Properties for a Hypothetical Population

Trates

Threshold rates: a function for computing error rates and Matthews cor...

An open source software package written in R statistical language. It consist in a set of decision making tools to conduct missing person searches. Particularly, it allows computing optimal LR threshold for declaring potential matches in DNA-based database search. More recently 'mispitools' incorporates preliminary investigation data based LRs. Statistical weight of different traces of evidence such as biological sex, age and hair color are presented. For citing mispitools please use the following references: Marsico and Caridi, 2023 <doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2023.102891> and Marsico, Vigeland et al. 2021 <doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2021.102519>.

  • Maintainer: Franco Marsico
  • License: GPL (>= 3)
  • Last published: 2024-08-17