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Statistics Under Attack: F.B.I. Director Speaks out in Support of DNA Profiling

Loaded on Aug. 15, 1994 by Dale Gardner published in Prison Legal News August, 1994, page 13
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples, Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends. Location: United States of America.
By Dale Gardner

The method used by the FBI to calculate the frequency of a DNA match has been questioned in a recent paper. It is reported that the FBI calculates match probability based upon a database of large pools of "Caucasians" or "Blacks". In an article in Science, Volume ...

 

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