Response paper to “The likelihood of encapsulating all uncertainty”: The relevance of additional information for the LR

In this response paper, part of the Virtual Special Issue on “Measuring and Reporting the Precision of Forensic Likelihood Ratios”, we further develop our position on likelihood ratios which we described previously in Berger et al. (2016) “The LR does not exist”. Our exposition is inspired by an example given in Martire et al. (2016) “On the likelih ood of encapsulating all uncertainty”, where the consequences of obtaining additional information on the LR were discussed. In their example, two experts use the same data in a different way, and the LRs of these experts change differently when new data are taken into account.

Source: Science and Justice - September 20, 2017 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Klaas Slooten, Charles E.H. Berger Tags: Response paper Source Type: research