Handbook of Forensic Statistics

ISBN-13: 9780367527723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 570 str.

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.

Recenzje

"In conclusion, this book is an impressive and comprehensive body of work, well-structured, well-written and perfectly presented, that can be useful for both professionals in statistics and forensics fields."

- Gia Jgarkava, International Society for Slinical Biostatistics, 72, 2021

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.