Dear all,
We are pleased to announce that CRAN now hosts our packages
DNAmixturesLite and KinMixLite.
These are fully R-based versions of our packages DNAmixtures and KinMix,
which rely on a commercial software, HUGIN, for performing efficient
computations in Bayesian networks. The lite versions rely instead on
gRain for such computations.
DNAmixtures provides statistical methods for DNA mixture analysis and
has been used to provide statistical evidence pertaining to DNA in
several criminal cases in the UK and Denmark. The purpose of the newly
released lite version is to allow users without a HUGIN software license
to experiment with the statistical methodology. While the lite version
aims to provide full functionality, it is noticeably less efficient than
the original DNAmixtures package. For details on implementation and
methodology see <https://dnamixtures.r-forge.r-project.org/>.
KinMix builds upon DNAmixtures and is a toolbox of methods for inference
about relationships between contributors to a DNA mixture and other
individuals of known genotype: a basic example would be testing whether
a contributor to a mixture is the father of a child of known genotype.
KinMixLite builds upon DNAmixturesLite and provides most of the
functionality of the KinMix package, but with some loss of efficiency.
The package implements the methods introduced in Green, P. J. and
Mortera, J. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.02.001> and Green, P. J.
and Mortera, J. (2021) <doi:10.1111/rssc.12498>.
Regards,
Therese Graversen and Peter Green
