Evaluating Eyewitness Identification Procedures Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-10

  Gronlund, Scott D ^a   Wixted, John T ^b   Mickes, Laura ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diagnosticity ratio; eyewitness identification; probative value; receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis; simultaneous and sequential lineups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893601680     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721413498891     Document Type: Article

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