FORSTAT Workshop

Forensic Evidence Evaluation
Problems and Applications

Final programme

17 June 2009
19.00	Welcome Coctail in the Novotel Hotel restaurant
18 June 2009
9.00 - 9.30	Frequentist approach to data evaluation (a range test, confidence interval - 2 or 3 sigma rule, Student t-test) for univariate continuous data, using RI as an example; lecture Colin Aitken (University of Edinburgh, UK)
9.30 - 10.00	Introduction to methods using R; exercise David Lucy (University of Lancaster, UK)
10.00 - 10.45	Frequentist approach to RI data evaluation - calculation in R: practical work using ideas from (a); exercise Grzegorz Zadora (Institute of Forensic Research, Krakow, Poland)
10.45 - 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 - 12.00	Bayesian approach to data evaluation to derive LR with refractive index example; lecture David Lucy (University of Lancaster, UK)
12.00 - 13.00	Bayesian approach to refractive index data evaluation; exercise David Lucy (University of Lancaster, UK)
13.00 - 13.45	Lunch
13.45 - 14.30	Likelihood ratio approach - introduction to kernel density estimation; lecture Tereza Neocleous (University of Glasgow, UK)
14.30 - 15.30	Kernel density estimation - R and window pop-up software; exercise Grzegorz Zadora (Institute of Forensic Research, Krakow, Poland)
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 - 17.00	Introduction to multivariate approach: mean, variance, covariance, covariance matrix; lecture Colin Aitken (University of Edinburgh, UK)
19:00	Dinner
19 June 2009
9.00 - 9.30	Review of last lecture of DAY 1 Colin Aitken (University of Edinburgh, UK)
9.30 - 11.00	Examples of basic calculations using R - bivarite data; exercise David Lucy (University of Lancaster, UK)
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 - 13.00	Calculation of LR for multivariate data; exercise Grzegorz Zadora (Institute of Forensic Research, Krakow, Poland)
13.00 - 14.15	Lunch
14.15 - 15.30	Derivation of graphical model for an appropriately chosen data set; lecture Tereza Neocleous (University of Glasgow, UK) David Lucy (University of Lancaster, UK)
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 - 17.00	Derivation of graphical model for an appropriately chosen data set; exercise Tereza Neocleous (University of Glasgow, UK) David Lucy (University of Lancaster, UK)
17.00 - 17.30	Review lecture Colin Aitken (University of Edinburgh, UK) Grzegorz Zadora (Institute of Forensic Research, Krakow, Poland)
17:30	Close of workshop, announcement of next meeting: Edinburgh, June 2010.

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