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What is the Probability that This Blood Came from That Person? A Meaningful Question?

✍ Scribed by I.W. Evett

Book ID
104119386
Publisher
Elsevier
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
468 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0015-7368

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✦ Synopsis

The paper discusses, on the basis of Bayesian inference, the type of question which the forensic scientist should attempt to answer in the context of the investigation of a crime. By means of simple examples it is argued that, as far as the scientist is concerned, the first question in the title is not, in general, meaningful.

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