@article{2ea55ebf2f924d04b14b86424d90f303,
title = "A comment on the PCAST report: Skip the “match”/“non-match” stage",
abstract = "This letter comments on the report “Forensic science in criminal courts: Ensuring scientific validity of feature-comparison methods” recently released by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The report advocates a procedure for evaluation of forensic evidence that is a two-stage procedure in which the first stage is “match”/“non-match” and the second stage is empirical assessment of sensitivity (correct acceptance) and false alarm (false acceptance) rates. Almost always, quantitative data from feature-comparison methods are continuously-valued and have within-source variability. We explain why a two-stage procedure is not appropriate for this type of data, and recommend use of statistical procedures which are appropriate.",
author = "Morrison, {Geoffrey Stewart} and Kaye, {David H.} and Balding, {David J.} and Duncan Taylor and Philip Dawid and Aitken, {Colin G G} and Simone Gittelson and Grzegorz Zadora and Bernard Robertson and Sheila Willis and Susan Pope and Martin Neil and Martire, {Kristy A.} and Amanda Hepler and Gill, {Richard D.} and Allan Jamieson and {de Zoete}, Jacob and Ostrum, {R. Brent} and Amke Caliebe",
note = "Funding Information: This work was funded in-part by a fellowship awarded to Morrison by the Simons Foundation. Morrison, Balding, Dawid, Aitken, Robertson, Pope, Neil, Martire, Gill, Jamieson, de Zoete, and Caliebe would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences for its hospitality during the program Probability and Statistics in Forensic Science which was supported by EPSRC Grant Number EP/K032208/1. All opinions expressed are those of the authors/signatories and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of any funding agencies or organizations with which they are affiliated. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd",
year = "2017",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.10.018",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "272",
pages = "e7--e9",
journal = "Forensic Science International",
issn = "0379-0738",
publisher = "Elsevier Ireland Ltd",
}