Handbook of Forensic Statistics

ISBN-13: 9781138295407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 552 str.

David L. Banks; Karen Kafadar; David H. Kaye

Opis

Provides a definitive review of the state of best practice for statistical testimony across a wide range of the forensic sciences, including DNA and fingerprint matching, handwriting analysis, foot prints, eye witness identification, tool marks, bite marks, etc.

Spis treści

1. The history of forensic inference and statistics: a thematic perspective. 2. Frequentist methods for statistical inference. 3. Bayesian methods and forensic inference. 4. Comparing philosophies of statistical inference. 5. Decision theory. 6. Association does not imply discrimination: Clarifying when matches are (and are not) meaningful. 7. Validation of forensic automatic likelihood ratio methods. 8. Bayesian networks in forensic science. 9. How well do lay people comprehend statistical statements from forensic scientists? 10. Forensic statistics in the courtroom. 11. DNA frequencies and probabilities. 12. Kinship. 13. Statistical support for conclusions in fingerprint examinations. 14. Probabilistic considerations when interpreting data base search and selection effects. 15. Comparing handwriting in questioned documents. 16. An introduction to firearms examination for researchers in statistics. 17. Shoeprints: the path from practice to science. 18. Forensic glass evidence. 19. Estimation of insect age for assessing minimum post-mortem interval in forensic entomology casework. 20. Statistical models in forensic voice comparison. 21. Bringing new statistical approaches to eyewitness evidence.