Construction and evaluation of classifiers for forensic document analysis

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 381-399

  Saunders, Christopher P ^a   Davis, Linda J ^a   Lamas, Andrea C ^a   Miller, John J ^a   Gantz, Donald T ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Classification; Cross validation; Handwriting identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857500577     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS379     Document Type: Article

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