forrel

MaRDI QIDQ67133CRANFDO

Authors Magnus Dehli Vigeland

Last update 6 October 2026

Copyright license GNU General Public License, version 2.0, GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.1, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, PACKAGES.rds, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.9.0, 1.10.0

Description

Forensic applications of pedigree analysis, including likelihood ratios for relationship testing, general relatedness inference, marker simulation, and power analysis. 'forrel' is part of the 'pedsuite', a collection of packages for pedigree analysis, further described in the book 'Pedigree Analysis in R' (Vigeland, 2021, ISBN:9780128244302). Several functions deal specifically with power analysis in missing person cases, implementing methods described in Vigeland et al. (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2020.102376>. Methods for checking pairwise relationships are described in Egeland and Vigeland (2025) <doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2025.103270>. Data exchange with the 'Familias' software (Egeland et al. (2000) <doi:10.1016/S0379-0738(00)00147-X>) is supported through the 'pedFamilias' package.

Cites work

• Beyond traditional paternity and identification cases
• Kinship cases with partially specified hypotheses
• Prioritising family members for genotyping in missing person cases: A general approach combining the statistical power of exclusion and inclusion

Cited in

(8)

• pedbuildr
• KLINK
• forensIT
• mispitools
• ibdfindr
• pedsuite
• forensicolors
• dvir

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