CSAFE @ ISU - REU 2017

Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

Sam Rew

Posted on July 17, 2017

click for paper. Summary of Murdock et. al ###Introduction With the work some researchers are doing in the forensic field there is bound to be criticism as to the methods currently used. Criticism is usually helpful and wanted, but “just as substandard work deserves derision, so does substandard... [Read More]

Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

Amanda Rae

Posted on July 17, 2017

Summary of Murdock et al. Introduction There are two communities, statistics and law enforcement, which have varying opinions of the evaluation of firearm toolmarks. Statisticians are concerned with the absence of probability models that include type one and two error. Through the research that has been done the... [Read More]

Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

Maddie Quistgaard

Posted on July 17, 2017

Summary of Murdock et. al Introduction At the beginning of the paper, the writers criticized about how accurately evidence can be presented in the field of fire arms and tool mark evidences. Critics argue that this field does not have a strong statistical basis of tool mark identification.... [Read More]

Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

Macy Neblett

Posted on July 17, 2017

Summary of Murdock et. al Introduction The nature of firearm and toolmark marks makes it difficult to create a statistical model that can accurately and reliably (from a statistical standpoint) predict the chances of a randomly aquired characteristic of being actually random. The models that have been suggested... [Read More]

Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

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Posted on July 17, 2017

Background: Carefully read the paper, “The Development and Application of Random Match Probabilities to Firearm and Toolmark Identification” by Murdock et al. It is provided in the repo here. Your assignment has two parts: Your first assignment is to summarize this paper. There are four sections: the... [Read More]

CSAFE @ ISU REU

Summer 2017

195 Durham Center

Iowa State University

Leaders: Joe Papio, joepapio at iastate dot edu and Sam Tyner, sctyner at iastate dot edu

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Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

Sam Rew

Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

Amanda Rae

Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

Maddie Quistgaard

Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

Macy Neblett

Discussion of Firearms & Toolmarks Analysis

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