The estimation of the age of a blood stain using reflectance spectroscopy with a microspectrophotometer, spectral pre-processing and linear discriminant analysis

Forensic Science International

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 198-204

  Li, Bo ^a   Beveridge, Peter ^a   O'Hare, William T ^a   Islam, Meez ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age determination; Blood stain; Linear discriminant analysis; Microspectrophotometer; Reflectance spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACCURACY; AGE DETERMINATION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLOOD STAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HORSE; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECTRAL PREPROCESSING; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 80052321606     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.05.031     Document Type: Article

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