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The Prosecutor's Fallacy and Expert Testimony: A Modern Take Using Likelihood Ratios
Maria Cuellar
Forensic examiners and attorneys need to know how to express evidence in favor or against a prosecutor's hypothesis in a way that avoids the prosecutor's fallacy and follows the mo…
Statistical Issues in the Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma
Maria Cuellar
The diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma (SBS/AHT) is fraught with controversy due to critical statistical deficiencies in the data underpinning these diagnoses. T…
How Often are Fingerprints Repeated in the Population? Expanding on Evidence from AI With the Birthday Paradox
Jackson Gold, Maria Cuellar
The assumption of fingerprint uniqueness is foundational in forensic science and central to criminal identification practices. However, empirical evidence supporting this assumptio…
Methodological Problems in Every Black-Box Study of Forensic Firearm Comparisons
Maria Cuellar, Susan Vanderplas, Amanda Luby +1
Reviews conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (2009) and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2016) concluded that the field of forensic firearm c…
Commentary on Guyll et al. (2023): Misuse of Statistical Method Results in Highly Biased Interpretation of Forensic Evidence
Michael Rosenblum, Elizabeth T. Chin, Elizabeth L. Ogburn +6
Since the National Academy of Sciences released their report outlining paths for improving reliability, standards, and policies in the forensic sciences NAS (2009), there has been…