Science & Justice
Volume 50, Issue 2 , Pages 72-76 , June 2010

A statistical study of the relative difficulty of freehand simulation of form, proportion, and line quality in Arabic signatures

Received 27 April 2009 ,Revised 13 August 2009 ,Accepted 24 August 2009.

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PII: S1355-0306(09)00133-6

doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2009.08.003

Science & Justice
Volume 50, Issue 2 , Pages 72-76 , June 2010