Data analysis in forensic science : a Bayesian decision perspective / Franco Taroni ... [et al.]. - xvii, 367 pages. : illustrations. ; 24 cm. - Statistics in practice . - Statistics in practice. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Scientific reasoning and decision making -- Concepts of statistical science and decision theory -- Point estimation -- Credible intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Sampling -- Classification of observations -- Bayesian forensic data analysis: conclusions and implications -- A Discrete distributions -- B Continuous distributions -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index

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Forensic sciences--Statistical methods.
Bayesian statistical decision theory.