Ronald Meester, Klaas Slooten

Probability and Forensic Evidence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the role of statistics and probability in the evaluation of forensic evidence, in theory and in practice. Accessible to a wide audience of mathematicians and statisticians, forensic scientists, and legal scholars, it is a must-read for those interested in the mathematical and philosophical foundations of evidence and belief.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 962g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428279
• ISBN-10: 1108428274
• Artikelnr.: 60313590

Autorenporträt

Ronald Meester is Professor in probability theory at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is co-author of the books Continuum Percolation (1996), Random Networks for Communication (2008), and Wiskunde in je vingers (in Dutch, 2015) and has written around 120 research papers on topics including percolation theory, ergodic theory, philosophy of science, and forensic probability.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Some Philosophy of Probability, Statistics, and Forensic Science
2. Evidence and the Likelihood Ratio
3. The Uncertainty of the Likelihood Ratio
4. Forensic Identification
5. The Bayesian Framework in Legal Cases
6. Bayesian Networks
7. DNA
8. Statistical Modeling and DNA Mixture Evaluation
9. p-Values of Likelihood Ratios
10. From Evidence to Decision
11. The Interpretation of DNA Database Matches
12. Familial Searching
13. Belief Functions and their Applications
14. Recommendation Reports
References
Index.