Frequentist approach to data analysis and interpretation in forensic anthropology

Minas Sifakis; Michael N. Kalochristianakis; Julieta Gómez García-Donas; Oguzhan Ekizoglu; Elena F. Kranioti

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-815764-0.00003-4

Frequentist approach to data analysis and interpretation in forensic anthropology

Minas Sifakis, Michael N. Kalochristianakis, Julieta Gómez García-Donas, Oguzhan Ekizoglu, Elena F. Kranioti

Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification

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Forensic anthropologists are requested to give authorities estimates on the biological characteristics of unidentified decomposed remains in an effort to create a physical description that can be compared with a missing person’s profile, eventually leading to positive identification. To answer these questions, scientists traditionally follow a variety of statistical approaches such as frequentist and Bayesian statistics in both analysis and interpretation. The main subject of this chapter is to summarize the frequentist statistical approach and to illustrate with examples the rationale in the method selection and interpretation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Statistics and Probability in Forensic Anthropology
Editors	Zuzana Obertová, Alistair Stewart, Cristina Cattaneo
Publisher	Academic Press
Chapter	3.1
Pages	109-124
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9780128157640
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-815764-0.00003-4
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

Forensic anthropology
Forensic medicine
Frequentist statistics
Frequentist inference
Scientific computing

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Sifakis, M., Kalochristianakis, M. N., Gómez García-Donas, J., Ekizoglu, O., & Kranioti, E. F. (2020). Frequentist approach to data analysis and interpretation in forensic anthropology. In Z. Obertová, A. Stewart, & C. Cattaneo (Eds.), Statistics and Probability in Forensic Anthropology (pp. 109-124). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-815764-0.00003-4

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Frequentist approach to data analysis and interpretation in forensic anthropology. / Sifakis, Minas; Kalochristianakis, Michael N.; Gómez García-Donas, Julieta et al.
Statistics and Probability in Forensic Anthropology. ed. / Zuzana Obertová; Alistair Stewart; Cristina Cattaneo. Academic Press, 2020. p. 109-124.

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