Evaluation of glass samples for forensic purposes - An application of likelihood ratios and an information-theoretical approach

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 63-83

  Zadora, Grzegorz ^a   Ramos, Daniel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Empirical cross entropy; Evidence evaluation; Forensic science; Glass; Likelihood ratio models; Physico chemical multivariate data

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GLASS; SILICON; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DATA BASE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LEGAL EVIDENCE; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 77953612455     PISSN: 01697439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemolab.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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