MCMC Hammer
Template, degradation, and amplification efficiency are considered these
What are Mass Parameters/Variables
This range of LRs is considered to be "adventitious" inclusions
This is the minimum number of loci needed with allelic data to interpret a profile using STRmix
What is 3?
This function in STRmix can be used to analyze a profile that has an unresolved peak at one locus
What is Ignore Locus?
STRmix only considers this threshold when evaluating a profile
What is AT?
Weights, mixture proportions, and likelihood ratios are also known as....
What are primary diagnostics?
FUN QUESTION!! Tornadoes are more likely to occur in which season?
What is spring?
A minimum of ____ complete loci are needed to call a PF SS profile comparable manually without the use of STRmix deconvolution
What is 8?
During Model Maker we used LUS to determine possible stutter ratios, LUS stands for...
Longest Uninterrupted Stretch
FUN QUESTION!! For people working at ESR in New Zealand, when does Summer begin?
What is December?
The metropolis Hastings algorithm sometimes ______ a poor guess and sometimes ______.
What is accepts and rejects?
This type of LR is reported by MSP
What is 99% lower-bound HPD LR?
This is the maximum number of contributors that can be analyzed in STRmix at MSP
What is 4?
FUN QUESTION!! Name 3 books/movies/tv shows that the sim set scenarios were based on
What are...
This is the maximum number of references that can be used as an assumed contributor in a 4-person mixture deconvolution
What is 3?
The MCMC process builds expected DNA profiles by using a combination of what 2 things?
What are genotypes and mass variables?
Running STRmix with n+1 NOC will do this to the LR of a true contributor?
What is decrease?
MSP uses both allele _____ and allele _____ to aid in determining the number of contributors
What are allele count and allele peak heights?
This diagnostic will be out of range if the chains do not converge
What is GR?
What is the drop in cap value at MSP?
What is 120rfu?
Algorithms used to process repeat random sampling to make numerical estimations of unknown parameters” best describes _______
What is Monte Carlo?
Name 3 possible LRs calculated by STRmix
What are point-estimate, Factor of N!, Unified, Stratified, and HPD LRs?
FUN QUESTION!!! The month of July is named after which historical person?
Who is Julius Caesar?
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?
MSP validation included analyzing many samples, the total number of samples analyzed in the validation was...
What is ~800?