On the discriminability of the handwriting of twins

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 430-446

  Srihari, Sargur ^a,b   Huang, Chen ^a   Srinivasan, Harish ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Forensic science; Handwriting processing; Questioned document examination; Twins study; Writer verification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCUMENT EXAMINATION; HANDWRITING; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; SOFTWARE; TWINS;

EID: 41149098184     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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