Science & Justice
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 164-167 , December 2008

Effectiveness of familial searches

  • James M. Curran

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  • ,
  • John S. Buckleton

      Affiliations

    • ESR, Auckland, New Zealand
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 24 October 2007 ,Revised 3 April 2008 ,Accepted 11 April 2008.

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PII: S1355-0306(08)00063-4

doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2008.04.004

Science & Justice
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 164-167 , December 2008