A Simple Numerical Procedure for Estimating the Prior Probability in the Biomathematical Proof of Paternity

✍ Scribed by Dr. D. Böhning

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-3847
• DOI: 10.1002/bimj.4710260619

✦ Synopsis

This note gives a simple procedure for finding the maximum likelihood estimate of the prior probabilities in paternity cases. The procedure is based on a fixed point principle.