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Presenter

Dr Geoffrey Stewart Morrison

Target audiences

Forensic science practitioners



Forensic science researchers



Students of forensic science



Lawyers



Judges

Abstract

This workshop is aimed at participants who already have some familiarity with the likelihood-ratio framework for evaluation of evidence, e.g., to the level covered in our introductory workshop.



The focus of the workshop is on understanding concepts, not on performing calculations.



Part I of the workshop provides a introduction to calculation of likelihood ratios. Participants will gain an understanding of:

specific-source likelihood ratios



common-source likelihood ratios



similarity-score-based likelihood ratios



Part II of the workshop provides an introduction to calibration and validation of forensic-evaluation systems that output likelihood ratios. Participants will gain an understanding of:

the meaning of calibration and validation in relation to likelihood ratios;



requirements for data used for calibration and validation;



the use of statistical models to perform calibration;



the calculation of the log-likelihood-ratio cost (C_llr) as a validation metric; and



the use of Tippett plots to represent validation results and to support (or not) the likelihood-ratio value calculated for the comparison of the items of interest in the case.

Presentation material

Slides

Comments from past participants

Court Appointed Forensic Advisor: 

I don’t have a background in statistics, but you presented the material in a way that was really easy for me to understand. I can’t thank you enough.

Deputy Director of a National Forensic Laboratory:

The workshop was very well prepared and conducted. Although I have only a basic knowledge of likelihood ratios, you explained everything very clearly. You are most definitely one of the few people who have a great talent to be a very-very good teacher.

About the presenter

Dr Geoffrey Stewart Morrison is Associate Professor and Director of the Forensic Data Science Laboratory at Aston University. His past appointments include Simons Foundation Visiting Fellow, Probability and Statistics in Forensic Science Programme, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences; Scientific Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs, INTERPOL; and Director, Forensic Voice Comparison Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, University of New South Wales. He is author of more than 65 refereed and invited publications in forensic science. He is Chair of the British Standards Institution (BSI) Forensic Science committee and a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Forensic Science committee. More information about his work can be found at: http://geoff-morrison.net/

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