Mixtures of Discrete Laplace Distributions using Numerical Optimisation.

disclapmix2

An experimental R-package for estimation of forensic Y-STR haplotype frequencies that generalises the model implemented in the disclapmix package. This extension allows for multi-copy loci, partial repeats and null alleles. For integer valued data, the results should be concordant with the original disclapmix implementation. Unlike the original implementation, this package uses an off-the-shelf solver for numerical likelihood optimisation.