Aitken / Taroni Statistics and the Evaluation of Evidence for Forensic Scientists

2. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-470-01122-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 540 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Statistics in Practice

The first edition of Statistics and the Evaluation of Evidence forForensic Scientists established itself as a highly regardedauthority on this area. Fully revised and updated, the secondedition provides significant new material on areas of currentinterest including:
* Glass Interpretation
* Fibres Interpretation
* Bayes' Nets
The title presents comprehensive coverage of the statisticalevaluation of forensic evidence. It is written with theassumption of a modest mathematical background and is illustratedthroughout with up-to-date examples from a forensic sciencebackground.
The clarity of exposition makes this book ideal for all forensicscientists, lawyers and other professionals in related fieldsinterested in the quantitative assessment and evaluation ofevidence.
'There can be no doubt that the appreciation of some evidencein a court of law has been greatly enhanced by the sound use ofstatistical ideas and one can be confident that the next decadewill see further developments, during which time this book willadmirably serve those who have cause to use statistics in forensicscience.'
D.V. Lindley

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aitken, C. G. G.

Aitken, Colin

Taroni, Franco

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the first edition.
Preface to the second edition.
Uncertainty in forensic science.
Variation.
The evaluation of evidence.
Historical review.
Bayesian inference.
Sampling.
Interpretation.
Transfer evidence.
Discrete data.
Continuous data.
Multivariate analysis.
Fibres.
DNA profiling.
Bayesian networks.
References.
Notation.
Cases.