Colin Aitken's Home Page
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2001 |
(with F. Taroni and P. Garbolino)
De Finetti's subjectivism, the assessment of
probabilities and the evaluation of evidence: a commentary for forensic scientists. Science and Justice, 41, 145-150. |
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2002 |
Statistical techniques and their role in evidence interpretation. In Forensic Medicine:Clinical and Pathological Aspects (J.Payne-James and A.Busuttil, Editors, Greenwich. Medical Media Ltd., pp. 755-776. |
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2002 |
(with D. Lucy) Estimation of the quantity of a drug in a consignment from
measurements on a sample. Journal of
Forensic Sciences, 47, 968-975. |
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2002 |
(with D. Lucy) The
role of roster data and evidence of attendance in cases of suspected excess
deaths in a medical context. Law,
Probability and Risk, 1, 141-160. |
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2003 |
(with W.C. Thompson and F. Taroni ) How the probability of
a false positive affects the value of DNA evidence. Journal of Forensic
Sciences, 48, 47-54. |
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2003 |
(with F. Taroni and P. Garbolino) A graphical model for
the evaluation of cross-transfer evidence in DNA profiles.
Theoretical Population Biology, 63,
179-190. |
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2003 |
(with W.C. Thompson and F.Taroni) How the probability of a false positive affects the value of DNA evidence. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 48, 47-54. |
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2003 |
Conviction by probability? New Law Journal, 153, number 7090, 1153-1154. |
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2003 |
The evaluation of evidence. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 35, 105-114. |
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2004 |
(with F.Taroni, A.Biedermann and P.Garbolino) A general approach to Bayesian networks for the interpretation of evidence. Forensic Science International, 139, 5-16. |
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2004 |
(with D. Lucy) Evaluation of trace evidence in the form of multivariate data. Applied Statistics, 53, 109-122; with corrigendum, 665-666. |
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2004 |
(with F.Taroni) Statistics and the evaluation of evidence for forensic scientists. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. |
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2005 |
(with F.Taroni, S. Bozza) Decision analysis in forensic science. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 50, 894-905. |
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2006 |
(with F.Taroni, P. Garbolino, A.Biedermann) Bayesian networks and probabilistic inference in forensic science. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. |
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2006 |
(with D.Lucy, G. Zadora, J.Curran) Evaluation of trace evidence for three-level multivariate data with the use of graphical models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 50, 2571-2588. |
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2006 |
Forensic Science, Statistics. In Encyclopaedia of Statistical Sciences, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, pp 2439-2445. |
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2006 |
((with Shen,Q., Keppens,J., Schafer,B. and Lee,M.) A scenario-driven decision support system for serious crime investigation. Law, Probability and Risk, 5, 87-117. |
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2007 |
(with G. Zadora and D.Lucy) A two-level model for evidence evaluation. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 52, 412-419. |
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2007 |
(with Shen,Q., Jensen,R. and Hayes, B. ) The evaluation of evidence for exponentially distributed data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 12, 5682-56939, (doi:10.1016/j.csda.2007.05.026). |
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2007 |
(with Ramos, D., Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J., Zadora, G., Zieba-Palus, J.) Information-theoretical comparison of likelihood ratio methods of forensic evidence evaluation. Information Assurance and Security, 2007. IAS 2007. Third International Symposium on 29-31 Aug. 2007 Page(s):411 - 416. |
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2008 |
(with Taroni,F.) Fundamentals of statistical evidence - a primer for legal professionals. International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 12, 181-207. |
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2009 |
(with Mavridis,D.) Sample size determination for categorical responses. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 54,135-151 doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00920.x |
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2009 |
Some thoughts on the role of probabilistic reasoning in the evaluation of evidence. In Criminal and environmental soil forensics (Ritz,K., Dawson,L., Miller,D. (Editors) Springer, pp. 33-47. |
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2009 |
Statistics and Forensic Science. In Handbook of Forensic Science. (Fraser,J. and Williams,R. (Editors) Willan Publishing Ltd. , UK, pp. 381 - 418 |
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2009 |
Interpreting expert opinions, History of. In Wiley Encyclopaedia of Forensic Science. Jamieson,A. and Moenssens,A. (Editors) John Wiley and Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, pp1579-1586. |
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2009 |
Sampling and estimation of quantities. In Wiley Encyclopaedia of Forensic Science. Jamieson,A. and Moenssens,A. (Editors) John Wiley and Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, pp. 2281-2291. |
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2010 |
(with Taroni,F., Bozza,S., Garbolino,P. and Biedermann,A. ) Data analysis in forensic science: a Bayesian decision perspective, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, about 300 pp. (to appear) |
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2010 |
(with Zadora,G. and Neocleous,T) A two-level model for evidence evaluation in the presence of zeros. Journal of Forensic Sciences (to appear). | |||
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EPSRC CASE studentship: further particulars
ENFSI FORSTAT workshop, June 2009
Royal Statistical Society working group on statistics and the law
Law, Probability and Risk journal
Statistics and the evaluation of evidence for forensic scientists, 2nd edition; order form
Statistics and the evaluation of evidence for forensic scientists, 2nd edition; errata
Bayesian networks and probabilistic inference in forensic science; order form