"Relationship Inference with Familias and R"
This page contains information connected to the book by Egeland, Kling, and Mostad, available from Elsevier. Please go to this site for free download of the program and documentation. Examples and exercises are based on the programs Familias (documentation), FamLink (tutorial), FamLinkX (tutorial) and R Familias (manual). The R library BookEKM (gz-format,, zip) contains functions and code for some examples and exercises in the book. Several other R libraries, developed by others, all available from cran, are also exemplified. These include disclap, disclapmix, DNAtools, identity, kinship2, and paramlink. Please check web and help pages for further information. Solutions for all exercises in the book are available but only selected exercises are freely available. There are also video solutions and tutorials. Some of the exercises require input files and these are available: Ch2Input.zip, Ch3Input.zip, Ch4FamLinkInput.zip, Ch4FamLinkXInput.zip. Please check courses and workshops for topics related to the book:
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Mass Identifications: Statistical Methods in Forensic Genetics
- 1st Edition - April 19, 2021
- Latest edition
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Daniel Kling, Thore Egeland, Andreas Tillmar, Lourdes Prieto
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128184233
- eBook ISBN: 9780128184240
Mass Identifications: Statistical Methods in Forensic Genetics summarizes the state-of-the-art in the field, including methods and recent development in genetics (sequencing). The book's authors focus on practical applications and implementation, helping readers determine how to approach the problem to identify individuals using DNA and statistically summarize evidence. Written by leading experts in the field for forensic scientists, geneticists, forensic anthropologists, and pathologists working with identifications, the book is ideal for scientists and practitioners in many areas.
Below follows links to exercises and solutions contained in the book. Solutions are subject to update if errors are detected, please see version history. The complete web page for the book is contained in this single zip file.
R Familias and relMix
The code for the core functions of Familias has been released in an R package. The R library Familias is on cran. The R library relMix, which uses R Familias, can be installed from https://github.com/gdorum/relMix. To install R Familias (only once) and load the package, write, in R,
> install.packages("Familias")
> library(Familias)
Information and help about the package can then be reached with
> help("Familias")
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