Webinar: Extracting Case-Specific Information from Validation Studies

CSAFE invites researchers, collaborators, and members of the broader forensics and statistics communities to participate in our Spring 2022 Webinar Series on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, from 11:00am-Noon CST. The presentation will be “Extracting Case-Specific Information from Validation Studies.” 

Presenters:
Steve Lund
Mathematical Statistician – National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hari Iyer
Mathematical Statistician – National Institute of Standards and Technology

Presentation Description:
Forensic disciplines often summarize validation studies using average error rates. However, almost every forensic discipline has factors that affect the difficulty of a given case (e.g., quantity and quality of a questioned impression or sample), and average performance metrics fail to reflect the difficulty of the current case. This talk presents an approach to characterize the information a set of validation data provides about method performance in a given case.

The webinars are free and open to the public, but researchers, collaborators and members of the broader forensics and statistics communities are encouraged to attend. Each 60-minute webinar will allow for discussion and questions.

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