The impact of data degradation and sample size on the performance of two similarity coefficients used in behavioural linkage analysis

Forensic Science International

Volumn 199, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 85-92

  Bennell, Craig ^a   Gauthier, Donna ^a   Gauthier, Donald ^a   Melnyk, Tamara ^a   Musolino, Evanya ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Jaccard's coefficient; Linkage analysis; ROC analysis; Serial crime; Taxonomic similarity index

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JACCARD COEFFICIENT; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPLICATION STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; TAXONOMIC SIMILARITY INDEX;

EID: 77953139809     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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