New perspectives in the use of ink evidence in forensic science. Part III: Operational applications and evaluation

Forensic Science International

Volumn 192, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 29-42

  Neumann, Cedric ^a,b   Margot, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparison; Identification; Ink examination; Interpretation; Likelihood ratio

Indexed keywords

INK;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 70349528135     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.07.013     Document Type: Article

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