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100

Template, degradation, and amplification efficiency are considered these

What are Mass Parameters/Variables

100

This range of LRs is considered to be "adventitious" inclusions

What is 2-1000?
100

This is the minimum number of loci needed with allelic data to interpret a profile using STRmix

What is 3?

100

This function in STRmix can be used to analyze a profile that has an unresolved peak at one locus

What is Ignore Locus?

100

STRmix only considers this threshold when evaluating a profile

What is AT?

200

Weights, mixture proportions, and likelihood ratios are also known as....

What are primary diagnostics?

200

FUN QUESTION!! Tornadoes are more likely to occur in which season?

What is spring?

200

A minimum of ____ complete loci are needed to call a PF SS profile comparable manually without the use of STRmix deconvolution

What is 8? 

200

During Model Maker we used LUS to determine possible stutter ratios, LUS stands for...

Longest Uninterrupted Stretch

200

FUN QUESTION!! For people working at ESR in New Zealand, when does Summer begin?

What is December?

300

The metropolis Hastings algorithm sometimes ______ a poor guess and sometimes ______.

What is accepts and rejects?

300

This type of LR is reported by MSP

What is 99% lower-bound HPD LR?

300

This is the maximum number of contributors that can be analyzed in STRmix at MSP

What is 4?

300

FUN QUESTION!! Name 3 books/movies/tv shows that the sim set scenarios were based on 

What are...

300

This is the maximum number of references that can be used as an assumed contributor in a 4-person mixture deconvolution

What is 3?

400

The MCMC process builds expected DNA profiles by using a combination of what 2 things?

What are genotypes and mass variables?

400

Running STRmix with n+1 NOC will do this to the LR of a true contributor?

What is decrease?

400

MSP uses both allele _____ and allele _____ to aid in determining the number of contributors

What are allele count and allele peak heights?

400

This diagnostic will be out of range if the chains do not converge

What is GR?

400

What is the drop in cap value at MSP?

What is 120rfu?

500

Algorithms used to process repeat random sampling to make numerical estimations of unknown parameters” best describes _______

What is Monte Carlo?

500

Name 3 possible LRs calculated by STRmix

What are point-estimate, Factor of N!, Unified, Stratified, and HPD LRs?

500

FUN QUESTION!!! The month of July is named after which historical person?

Who is Julius Caesar?

500

Name 2 things that can lead to an unexpected 0 LR at a locus, in an otherwise acceptable STRmix run

What are artifacts left in STRmix text file, unresolved peak and wrong number of contributors?

500

MSP validation included analyzing many samples, the total number of samples analyzed in the validation was...

What is ~800?

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