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Learn more about how blind proficiency testing can be implemented in forensic science laboratories and how it can positively impact your work.

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Learn more about how statistics applied to forensic evidence can impact you as a legal professional in the courtroom.

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This short course, beautifully sculpted for legal professionals, is a companion to Brandon Garrett's 2021 book, "Autopsy of a Crime Lab." Throughout this course, Garrett conducts a critical review of how forensics are used in criminal cases, detailing the many ways that evidence relied upon by courts and juries can be compromised on its way from the crime scene to the lab to the courtroom.

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The treatment of inconclusive decisions and calculation of error rates have become controversial topics in forensic science. This presentation will provide a brief summary of the challenges, highlight prior viewpoints and suggestions that have been proposed to address the issues, and recommend a path forward for the forensic science community.

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This beginner level Stats Starter introduces Bayes' Rule, or Bayes' Theorem, and how it applies to forensic evidence.

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This beginner level Stats Starter helps define the term "statistics" and how it is used.

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There is no systematic algorithm to inspect striations on wires without manual extraction. A new, reproducible, automatic algorithm is proposed to analyze the similarity between wires. Interpreting the result correctly promises a consistent way of using wires as forensic evidence in the future.

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This beginner level Stats Starter introduces learners to the likelihood ratio and its growing application to forensic evidence.

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This beginner level Stats Starter discusses the concept of classifying objects based on shared qualities or characteristics and how that applies to forensic evidence.

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This beginner level Stats Starter provides an introduction to regression analysis, explaining how to model the relationship between two variables and make predictions in forensic casework.

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