The occurrence of fingerprint characteristics as a two-dimensional process

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 74, Issue 367, 1979, Pages 588-595

  Sclove, Stanley L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Criminalistics; Fingerprints; Identification; Markov process; Multinomial model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950609498     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1979.10481654     Document Type: Article

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