Bayesian Forensic Data Analysis: Conclusions and Implications
Franco Taroni, Silvia Bozza, Alex Biedermann, Paolo Garbolino, Colin G. G. Aitken · 2010
There is a growing community in forensic science that has spent many years applying Bayesian ideas to inference from evidence applied to legal contexts. A main reason for this is, probably, that Bayes’ theorem is helpful in explaining the concept of evidence and proof in science and that formal procedures are easier to explain and justify than informal ones. This is the conclusory chapter of the book, which bridges the gap between research and operational data-analytic problems in forensic science and the current methodological backup to approach such issues. The book focuses on presenting the Bayesian methodology, and the study of the methodology for forensic problems in data analysis, gravitating, in one respect or another, around the question of how a scientist may arrive at sensible conclusions. Controlled Vocabulary Terms Bayesian inference