How has the product rule been applied to calculate the frequency of a multi-locus profile?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Venegas, 18 Cal.4th 47, 74 Cal.Rptr.2d 262, 954 P.2d 525 (Cal. 1998):
The foregoing application of the product rule to calculate the frequency of a multi-locus profile will produce an accurate result only to the extent that each multiplied frequency is statistically independent from all the others. (See People v. Collins (1968) 68 Cal.2d 319, 328-329, 66 Cal.Rptr. 497, 438 P.2d 33.)
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