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