Introduction to statistics for forensic scientists
By: David Lucy.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, England; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Forensic sciences -- Statistical methods.; Forensic statistics.; Evidence (Law) -- Statistical methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A short history of statistics in the law; title: Data types, location, and dispersion; title: Probability; title: The normal distribution; title: Measures of nominal and ordinal association; title: Correlation; title: Regression and calibration; title: Evidence evaluation; title: Conditional probability and Bayes' theorem; title: Relevance and the formulation of propositions; title: Evaluation of evidence in practice; title: Evidence evaluation examples; title: Errors in interpretation; title: DNA I; title: DNA II; title: Sampling and sample size estimation; title: Epilogue.