Science & Justice
Volume 49, Issue 1 , Pages 2-7, March 2009

The interpretation of elemental composition measurements from forensic glass evidence III

  • Gareth P. Campbell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Auckland, Private Bag 90219, Auckland, New Zealand
    • ,
  • James M. Curran

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 90219, Auckland, New Zealand
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +64 9 3731599x86893; fax: +64 9 3737018.

Received 3 March 2008; received in revised form 11 September 2008; accepted 13 September 2008. published online 30 October 2008.

Abstract 

In this paper we introduce a permutation testing approach to the interpretation of evidence which consists of elemental composition measurements, with glass evidence as an example. This work extends previous work of Curran et al. [J.M. Curran, C.M. Triggs, J.R. Almirall, J.S. Buckleton and K.A.J. Walsh, The interpretation of elemental composition measurements from forensic glass evidence, Science and Justice 37 (1997) 241–244.] and shows how we may remove some of the constraints that limited the applicability of the previous results. We provide the reader with tools for evidence pre-screening that may aid in the direction of further analyses of the data, rather than for the presentation of evidence interpretation in a court case.

Keywords: Elemental composition, Statistics, Multivariate, Hotelling

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PII: S1355-0306(08)00109-3

doi:10.1016/j.scijus.2008.09.001

Science & Justice
Volume 49, Issue 1 , Pages 2-7, March 2009

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