Admitting to uncertainty in the LR

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NCJ Number
255154
Journal
Science & Justice Volume: 56 Issue: 5 Dated: September 2016 Pages: 380-382
Author(s)
JAMES M. CURRAN
Date Published
September 2016
Length
3 pages
Annotation
As one of the articles in the Virtual Special Issue of Science & Justice entitled, "Measuring and Reporting the Precision of Forensic Likelihood Ratios," the current article argues that given the current state of knowledge, reporting uncertainty in the likelihood ratio is best practice.
Abstract

The author notes, however, that in the future, this practice may be replaced by reporting a Bayes factor, but this is not currently possible except in the simplest of examples. (publisher abstract modified)

Grant Number(s)
2014-DN-BX-K028
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Issue Overview
Award
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Date Published: September 1, 2016

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