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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
By Dale Gardner
Filed under:
DNA Testing/Samples,
Crime/Demographics,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
United States of America.
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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