relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/85/
title: Selection effects in forensic science
creator: Franx, Geert Jan
creator: van Gennip, Yves
creator: Hochs, Peter
creator: Nuyens, Misja
creator: Palla, Luigi
creator: Quant, Corrie
creator: Trapman, Pieter
subject: None/Other
description: In this report we consider the following question: does a forensic expert need to know exactly how the evidential material was selected? We set up a few simple models of situations in which the way evidence is selected may influence its value in court. Although reality is far from a probabilistic model, and one should be very careful when applying theoretical results to real life situations, we believe that the results in our models indicate how the selection of evidence affects its value. We conclude that selection effects in forensic science can be quite important, and that from a statistical point of view, improvements can be made to court room practice.
date: 2005-02-04
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/85/1/NLforensic.pdf
identifier:   Franx, Geert Jan and van Gennip, Yves and Hochs, Peter and Nuyens, Misja and Palla, Luigi and Quant, Corrie and Trapman, Pieter  (2005) Selection effects in forensic science.  [Study Group Report]