Cocaine profiling for strategic intelligence, a cross-border project between France and Switzerland. Part II. Validation of the statistical methodology for the profiling of cocaine

Forensic Science International

Volumn 177, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 199-206

  Lociciro, S ^a   Esseiva, P ^a   Hayoz, P ^a   Dujourdy, L ^b   Besacier, F ^b   Margot, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Centre Universitaire des Saints Pères   (France)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Cosine and Pearson correlation; Drug profiling; Inter laboratory comparison; Pre treatments; ROC curve; Statistics

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG TRAFFIC; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FRANCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LABORATORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SWITZERLAND; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 41649089265     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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