CSAFE @ ISU - REU 2017

Experimental Design for Forensic Methods

Sam Rew

Posted on July 5, 2017

Section 5.7: Hair Analysis First off, any experiment done with hair analysis would need a very large sample size. I would gather 10 hair samples from 150 random people across the country, for a total of 1500 hair samples. These samples would be put into a database for 5... [Read More]

Experimental Design for Forensic Methods, Bitemarks

Amanda Rae

Posted on July 5, 2017

Experimental Design with Respect to PCAST Report Subsection on Bite Marks After reading the PCAST report section on Bite Mark Analysis I understood that there were many issues with the implementation of examination. It appears that the examiners do not follow a set protocol to identify markings. Each examiner... [Read More]

Experimental Design for Forensic Methods

Maddie Quistgaard

Posted on July 5, 2017

Bitemarks: 5.3 What kind of factors would you need to control for, and how would you accomplish that? The factors that would be controlled are the length of time between when the bite was taken and when it was examined. Another control would be the surfaces that... [Read More]

Experimental Design for Forensic Methods

Macy Neblett

Posted on July 5, 2017

Latent Print Proficiency Testing One of the issues raised with latent print examination was the need for proficiency testing. I would want to test does an examiners’ work quality differ depending on the context of the examination. This would require testing examiners with them knowing they were being “tested”... [Read More]

Experimental Design for Forensic Methods

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Posted on July 5, 2017

Background: Select one of the forensics methods discussed in Sections 5.3-5.7 of the report “Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods”, which was issued by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in 2016. Read that subsection thoroughly, taking note of issues... [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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Experimental Design for Forensic Methods

Sam Rew

Experimental Design for Forensic Methods, Bitemarks

Amanda Rae

Experimental Design for Forensic Methods

Maddie Quistgaard

Experimental Design for Forensic Methods

Macy Neblett

Experimental Design for Forensic Methods

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