The effectiveness of each diagnostic model (i.e. locus) for predicting the probability of obtaining a correct match between a bite mark and the teeth responsible.

Probabilities (p) determined that the assignment of a binary outcome variable was influenced by the proportion of shared identical reads between bite and teeth samples; OP- optimum proportion of shared identical reads yielding the greatest estimates of sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV; Sens- Sensitivity; Spec- Specificity; PPV- positive predictive values; NPV- negative predictive value. Values in the brackets indicate the lower and upper values of a 95% confidence interval.