Uncertainty about the true source. A note on the likelihood ratio at the activity level

Forensic Science International

Volumn 220, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 173-179

  Taroni, Franco ^a   Biedermann, Alex ^a   Bozza, Silvia ^b   Comte, Jennifer ^a   Garbolino, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY IUAV OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Evidence evaluation; Hierarchy of propositions; Likelihood ratio

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CRIME; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; LEGAL EVIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEXTILE FIBER; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84862675053     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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