A Comment on the PCAST Report : Skip the 'Match'/'Non-Match' Stage

This letter comments on the report “Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-comparison Methods” released in September 2016, by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The report advocates a two-stage procedure for evaluation of forensic evidence. The first stage is a “match”/“non-match” determination, and the second stage is an empirical assessment of sensitivity (correct acceptance) and false alarm (false acceptance) rates. Almost always, quantitative data from feature-comparison methods are continuously-valued and have within-source variability. We explain why a two-stage procedure is not appropriate for this type of data, and recommend more appropriate statistical procedures

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Year of publication:	2017
Authors:	Morrison, Geoffrey
Other Persons:	Kaye, David H. (contributor) ; Balding, David J. (contributor) ; Taylor, Duncan (contributor) ; Dawid, Philip (contributor) ; Aitken, Colin (contributor) ; Gittelson, Simone (contributor) ; Zadora, Grzegorz (contributor) ; Robertson, Bernard W. (contributor) ; Willis, Sheila (contributor) ; Pope, Susan (contributor) ; Neil, Martin (contributor) ; Martire, Kristy A (contributor) ; Hepler, Amanda B. (contributor) ; Gill, Richard (contributor) ; Jamieson, Allan (contributor) ; de Zoete, Jacob (contributor) ; Ostrum, Brent (contributor) ; Caliebe, Amke (contributor)
Publisher:	[2017]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Steuervermeidung \| Tax avoidance \| Internationales Steuerrecht \| International tax law \| Steuererhebungsverfahren \| Taxation procedure \| G20-Staaten \| G20 countries \| Gewinnverlagerung \| Income shifting \| OECD-Staaten \| OECD countries \| Konfliktregelung \| Dispute settlement

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (6 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Forensic Science International (Forthcoming) Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 25, 2016 erstellt
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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