Weight-of-Evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles
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Weight-of-Evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles

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eBook - ePub

Weight-of-Evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles

About this book

DNA evidence is widely used in the modern justice system. Statistical methodology plays a key role in ensuring that this evidence is collected, interpreted, analysed and presented correctly. This book is a guide to assessing DNA evidence and presenting that evidence in a courtroom setting. It offers practical guidance to forensic scientists with little dependence on mathematical ability, and provides the scientist with the understanding they require to apply the methods in their work. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005 there have been many incremental changes, and one dramatic change which is the emergence of low template DNA (LTDNA) profiles. This second edition is edited and expanded to cover the basics of LTDNA technology. The author's own open-source R code likeLTD is described and used for worked examples in the book. Commercial and free software are also covered.

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Yes, you can access Weight-of-Evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles by David J. Balding,Christopher D. Steele in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Mathematics & Probability & Statistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781118814550
eBook ISBN
9781118814543

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface to the second edition
  6. Preface to the first edition
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Crime on an island
  9. 3 Assessing evidence using likelihoods
  10. 4 Profiling technologies
  11. 5 Some population genetics for DNA evidence
  12. 6 Inferences of identity
  13. 7 Inferring relatedness
  14. 8 Low-template DNA profiles
  15. 9 Introduction to likeLTD †
  16. 10 Other approaches to weight of evidence
  17. 11 Some issues for the courtroom
  18. Solutions to exercises
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. Statistics in Practice
  22. End User License Agreement