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Practitioner guide demonstrates construction of validated score-based likelihood ratio systems in forensic casework, highlighting reliable computation of evidential strength.
Likelihood ratios (LRs) are a useful measure of evidential strength. In forensic casework consisting of a flow of cases with essentially the same question and the same analysis method, it is feasible to construct an 'LR system', that is, an automated procedure that has the observations as input and an LR as output. This paper is aimed at practitioners interested in building their own LR systems. It gives an overview of the different steps needed to get to a validated LR system from data. The paper is accompanied by a notebook that illustrates each step with an example using glass data. The notebook introduces open-source software in Python constructed by NFI (Netherlands Forensic Institute) data scientists and statisticians.
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