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Tests on Independence of VNTR Alleles in the Chinese Population in Hong Kong

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The issue of independence of fragment lengths within and between VNTR loci is a controversial topic in DNA profiling (fingerprinting). This paper discusses a battery of tests and applies them for testing independence of VNTR data for the Chinese population in Hong Kong. The independence assumption seems to be satisfied generally. This finding is very different from those obtained by Geisser and Johnson (1993) that the assumption is largely invalid for Blacks, Caucasians and Hispanics. Some discussion on the validity of the tests is also given.

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  1. Department of Statistics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

    Wing K. Fung

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  1. Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hseuh Road, Hsichu, Taiwan R.O.C

    Jack C. Lee

  2. Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

    Wesley O. Johnson

  3. Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1101 East 58th Street, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA

    Arnold Zellner

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Fung, W.K. (1996). Tests on Independence of VNTR Alleles in the Chinese Population in Hong Kong. In: Lee, J.C., Johnson, W.O., Zellner, A. (eds) Modelling and Prediction Honoring Seymour Geisser. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2414-3_18

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