Handbook of forensic statistics. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David L. Banks, Karen Kafadar, David H. Kaye, Maria Tackett.
• Editors: Banks, David L; Kafadar, Karen; Tackett, Maria; Kaye, D. H (David H.), 1947-
• Contents: Section 1: Perspectives on Forensic Statistics 1. The history of forensic inference and statistics: a thematic perspective; ~Colin Aitken and Franco Taroni Section 2: General Concepts and Methods 2. Frequentist methods for statistical inference; ~David H. Kaye 3. Bayesian methods and forensic inference; ~David Banks and Maria Tackett 4. Comparing philosophies of statistical inference; ~Hal S. Stern 5. Decision theory; ~Franco Taroni, Silvia Bozza, and Alex Biedermann 6. Association does not imply discrimination: Clarifying when matches are (and are not) meaningful; ~Maria Cuellar, Lucas Mentch, and Cliff Spiegelman 7. Validation of forensic automatic likelihood ratio methods; ~Daniel Ramos, Didier Meuwly, Rudolf Haraksim, and Charles E. H. Berger 8. Bayesian networks in forensic science. ; ~A. Philip Dawid and Julia Mortera Section 3: Legal and Psychological Dimensions 9. How well do lay people comprehend statistical statements from forensic scientists?; ~Kristy A. Martire and Gary Edmond 10. Forensic statistics in the courtroom; ~David H. Kaye Section 4: Applications of Statistics to Particular Fields in Forensic Science 11. DNA frequencies and probabilities; ~Bruce Weir 12. Kinship; ~Bruce Weir 13. Statistical support for conclusions in fingerprint examinations; ~Cedric Neumann, Jessie Hendricks, and Madeline Ausdemore 14. Probabilistic considerations when interpreting data base search and selection effects; ~M. J. Sjerps 15. Comparing handwriting in questioned documents; ~Alan Julian Izenman 16. An introduction to firearms examination for researchers in statistics; ~Susan Vanderplas, Alicia Carriquiry, Heike Hofmann, James Hamby, and Xiao Hui Tai 17. Shoeprints: the path from practice to science; ~Sarena Wiesner, Naomi Kaplan-Damary, Benjamin Eltzner, and Stephan Huckemann 18. Forensic glass evidence; ~Karen Pan, Junqi Chen, and Karen Kafadar 19. Estimation of insect age for assessing minimum post-mortem interval in forensic entomology casework; ~Davide Pigoli, M. J. R. Hall, and John Aston 20. Statistical models in forensic voice comparison; ~Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Ewald Enzinger, Daniel Ramos, Joaquín González-Rodríguez, and Alicia Lozano-Díez 21. Bringing new statistical approaches to eyewitness evidence; ~Alice J. Liu, Karen Kafadar, Brandon L. Garrett, Joanne Yaffe
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 519.502436325; Forensic sciences -- Statistical methods; Forensic statistics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000096200; 9781000096064; 9781000096132; 9780367527709
• Related ISBNs: 9781138295407
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