Citation

Aitken CG, Connolly T, Gammerman A, Zhang G, Bailey D, Gordon R, Oldfield R. Sci. Justice 1996; 36(4): 245-255.

Affiliation

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Forensic Science Society, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S1355-0306(96)72610-2

PMID

8921747

Abstract

In spite of the problems associated with the development of a statistical approach in specific case analysis, the potential of two statistical methods, logistic regression and Bayesian belief networks, has been investigated and found encouraging in the context of a database relating to child murders with a sexual connotation. Continual collaboration between statisticians and detectives would be needed in the collection of the data, the choice and construction of the models, and the interpretation of the results.

Language: en