mispitools

A set of decision making tools to conduct missing person searches. Particularly, it allows computing optimal LR threshold for declaring potential matches in DNA-based database search. More recently 'mispitools' incorporates preliminary investigation data based LRs. Statistical weight of different traces of evidence such as biological sex, age and hair color are presented. For citing mispitools please use the following references: Marsico and Caridi, 2023 doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2023.102891 and Marsico, Vigeland et al. 2021 doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2021.102519.