Quantifying evidence in forensic authorship analysis

International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-25

  Grant, Tim ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authorship analysis; Bayes theorem; Discriminant analysis; Error; Forensic linguistics; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148900949     PISSN: 17488885     EISSN: 17488893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/ijsll.v14i1.1     Document Type: Article

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