| Description |
1 online resource (571 p.) |
| Series |
Chapman and Hall/CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods Ser |
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Chapman and Hall/CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Editors -- Contributors -- Section I: Perspectives on Forensic Statistics -- 1. The History of Forensic Inference and Statistics: A Thematic Perspective -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Forensic Science and the Evaluation of Evidence -- 1.3 The Need for an Interpretative Model -- 1.4 Support of Judicial Disciplines for a Scientific Presentation of the Value of Evidence -- 1.5 Probability of Proposition Given Evidence and of Evidence Given Proposition |
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1.6 Quantification of the Value of Evidence Using Alternative Numerical Summaries -- 1.7 Change from Two-Stage Approach to Continuous Approach -- 1.8 Presentation of Evidence: New Challenges to Solve -- 1.8.1 The Island Problem and Results of a Database Selection -- 1.8.2 Profile Probability vs Conditional Profile Probability -- 1.8.3 Evaluation by Taking Errors into Account -- 1.9 A Minimum Value for the Profile Probability -- 1.10 Propositions and Pre-Assessment -- 1.10.1 The Choice of Propositions -- 1.10.2 The Pre-Assessment -- 1.11 Translation of a Numerical Value into a Verbal Equivalent |
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1.12 Assessment of Performance -- 1.13 Role for Likelihood Ratio as aMeasure for Investigation as Well as for Evaluation -- 1.14 Probabilistic GraphicalModels -- 1.14.1 Bayesian Networks -- 1.14.2 Bayesian Networks to Manage 'Masses' of Evidence -- 1.14.3 Bayesian Networks in Judicial Contexts -- 1.14.4 Bayesian Networks in Forensic Science: Particular Case Modeling -- 1.14.5 Bayesian Networks in Forensic Science: Generic Patterns of Inference -- 1.15 Not Only Inference: The Way to Make a Decision -- 1.15.1 The Objectives and Ingredients of Decision Theory -- 1.15.2 Graphical Models |
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1.16 The Existence or Otherwise of a True Value of the Evidence -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section II: General Concepts andMethods -- 2. Frequentist Methods for Statistical Inference -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Definitions and Notation -- 2.2.1 Data and Evidence -- 2.3 Random Variables and Probability Distributions -- 2.3.1 Sampling from a Distribution or Population -- 2.4 Estimation -- 2.4.1 Properties of Point Estimators -- 2.4.2 Estimating Allele Proportions 2.4.2.1 A Point Estimate -- 2.4.2.2 Constructing a Confidence Interval -- 2.4.2.3 Choosing a Confidence Coefficient |
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2.4.3 Estimating a False Positive Probability Through an Experiment 2.4.3.1 The Design of Experiments to Test Categorical Source -- 2.4.3.2 An Experiment to Test Categorical Judgments of Latent Print Examiners -- 2.4.3.3 Constructing Confidence Intervals -- 2.4.4 Interpreting Confidence Intervals -- 2.5 p-Values -- 2.5.1 p-Values in a Comparison of Glass Fragments -- 2.5.2 Interpreting p-Values -- 2.6 Hypothesis Tests -- 2.6.1 Classical Hypothesis Tests for Refractive Index Matching 2.6.1.1 Type I Errors and the Size of a Test -- 2.6.1.2 Type II Errors and the Power of a Test |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Forensic sciences -- Statistical methods
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kafadar, Karen
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Kaye, David H
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Tackett, Maria
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| ISBN |
9781000096200 |
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1000096203 |
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