Handbook of Forensic Statistics (Paperback)

Section 1: Perspectives on Forensic Statistics 1. The history of forensic inference and statistics: a thematic perspective. ~Colin Aitken and Franco Taroni Section 2: General Concepts and Methods 2. Frequentist methods for statistical inference. ~David H. Kaye 3. Bayesian methods and forensic inference. ~David Banks and Maria Tackett 4. Comparing philosophies of statistical inference. ~Hal S. Stern 5. Decision theory. ~Franco Taroni, Silvia Bozza, and Alex Biedermann 6. Association does not imply discrimination: Clarifying when matches are (and are not) meaningful. ~Maria Cuellar, Lucas Mentch, and Cliff Spiegelman 7. Validation of forensic automatic likelihood ratio methods. ~Daniel Ramos, Didier Meuwly, Rudolf Haraksim, and Charles E. H. Berger 8. Bayesian networks in forensic science. ~A. Philip Dawid and Julia Mortera Section 3: Legal and Psychological Dimensions 9. How well do lay people comprehend statistical statements from forensic scientists? ~Kristy A. Martire and Gary Edmond 10. Forensic statistics in the courtroom. ~David H. Kaye Section 4: Applications of Statistics to Particular Fields in Forensic Science 11. DNA frequencies and probabilities. ~Bruce Weir 12. Kinship. ~Bruce Weir 13. Statistical support for conclusions in fingerprint examinations. ~Cedric Neumann, Jessie Hendricks, and Madeline Ausdemore 14. Probabilistic considerations when interpreting data base search and selection effects. ~M. J. Sjerps 15. Comparing handwriting in questioned documents. ~Alan Julian Izenman 16. An introduction to firearms examination for researchers in statistics. ~Susan Vanderplas, Alicia Carriquiry, Heike Hofmann, James Hamby, and Xiao Hui Tai 17. Shoeprints: the path from practice to science. ~Sarena Wiesner, Naomi Kaplan-Damary, Benjamin Eltzner, and Stephan Huckemann 18. Forensic glass evidence. ~Karen Pan, Junqi Chen, and Karen Kafadar 19. Estimation of insect age for assessing minimum post-mortem interval in forensic entomology casework. ~Davide Pigoli, M. J. R. Hall, and John Aston 20. Statistical models in forensic voice comparison. ~Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Ewald Enzinger, Daniel Ramos, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, and Alicia Lozano-Diez 21. Bringing new statistical approaches to eyewitness evidence. ~Alice J. Liu, Karen Kafadar, Brandon L. Garrett, Joanne Yaffe