Forensic identification with imperfect evidence
证据不完美时的法医学身份识别
We study the problem of forensic identification when the trace evidence from the scene of the crime is imperfect: for example, it might be measured with error, or be partially missing. A general framework for imperfect data is developed, and applied in particular to the following cases, singly and in combination: ‘measurement error’ in the recorded information at the scene of the crime; ‘binning’, i.e. discretisation of an originally continuous crime measurement; ‘paternity…