Forensic applications of pedigree analysis, including likelihood ratios
for relationship testing, general relatedness inference, marker simulation, and
power analysis. General computation of exclusion powers is based on Egeland et
al. (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.05.001>. Several functions deal
specifically with family reunion cases, implementing and developing ideas from
Kling et al. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.08.006>. A novelty of 'forrel'
is the ability to model background inbreeding in forensic pedigree computations.
This can have significant impact in applications, as exemplified in Vigeland
and Egeland (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.fsigss.2019.10.175>. 'forrel' is part of the
ped suite, a collection of packages for pedigree analysis. In particular,
'forrel' imports 'pedtools' for creating and manipulating pedigrees and markers,
'pedprobr' for likelihood computations, and 'pedmut' for mutation modelling.
Pedigree data may be created from scratch, or loaded from text files. Data
import from the 'Familias' software (Egeland et al. (2000)
<doi:10.1016/S0379-0738(00)00147-X>) is supported.

pedprobr (>= 0.3), ribd, pedmut, maxLik, glue

pedprobr (>= 0.4), ribd, pedmut, maxLik, glue

c(
person("Magnus Dehli", "Vigeland", , "m.d.vigeland@medisin.uio.no", role = c("aut", "cre"),
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9134-4962")),
person("Thore", "Egeland", , "thore.egeland@nmbu.no", role = "ctb")
)
Forensic applications of pedigree analysis, including
likelihood ratios for relationship testing, general relatedness
inference, marker simulation, and power analysis. General computation
of exclusion powers is based on Egeland et al. (2014)
<doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.05.001>. Several functions deal
specifically with family reunion cases, implementing and developing
ideas from Kling et al. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.08.006>. A
novelty of 'forrel' is the ability to model background inbreeding in
forensic pedigree computations.  This can have significant impact in
applications, as exemplified in Vigeland and Egeland (2019)
<doi:10.1016/j.fsigss.2019.10.175>. 'forrel' is part of the ped suite,
a collection of packages for pedigree analysis. In particular,
'forrel' imports 'pedtools' for creating and manipulating pedigrees
and markers, 'pedprobr' for likelihood computations, and 'pedmut' for
mutation modelling.  Pedigree data may be created from scratch, or
loaded from text files. Data import from the 'Familias' software
(Egeland et al. (2000) <doi:10.1016/S0379-0738(00)00147-X>) is
supported.
glue, pedmut, pedprobr (>= 0.4), ribd (>= 1.3.0)
Magnus Dehli Vigeland [aut, cre]
(<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9134-4962>),
Thore Egeland [ctb]