PMID- 23428350
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130919
LR  - 20130313
IS  - 1872-6283 (Electronic)
IS  - 0379-0738 (Linking)
VI  - 226
IP  - 1-3
DP  - 2013 Mar 10
TI  - Decision-theoretic reflections on processing a fingermark.
PG  - e42-7
LID - S0379-0738(13)00025-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.01.019 [doi]
AB  - A recent publication in this journal [1] presented the results of a field study 
      that revealed the data provided by the fingermarks not processed in a forensic 
      science laboratory. In their study, the authors were interested in the usefulness 
      of this additional data in order to determine whether such fingermarks would have 
      been worth submitting to the fingermark processing workflow. Taking these ideas 
      as a starting point, this communication here places the fingermark in its context 
      of a case brought before a court, and examines the question of processing or not 
      processing a fingermark from a decision-theoretic point of view. The 
      decision-theoretic framework presented provides an answer to this question in the 
      form of a quantified expression of the expected value of information (EVOI) 
      associated with the processed fingermark, which can then be compared with the 
      cost of processing the mark.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Gittelson, S
AU  - Gittelson S
AD  - University of Lausanne, Ecole des Sciences Criminelles, Institut de Police 
      Scientifique, le Batochime, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. simone.gittelson@unil.ch
FAU - Bozza, S
AU  - Bozza S
FAU - Biedermann, A
AU  - Biedermann A
FAU - Taroni, F
AU  - Taroni F
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20130219
PL  - Ireland
TA  - Forensic Sci Int
JT  - Forensic science international
JID - 7902034
SB  - IM
MH  - Cost-Benefit Analysis
MH  - *Decision Theory
MH  - *Dermatoglyphics
MH  - Humans
MH  - Laboratories/*economics
EDAT- 2013/02/23 06:00
MHDA- 2013/09/21 06:00
CRDT- 2013/02/23 06:00
PHST- 2012/10/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/01/10 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/01/14 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/02/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/02/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/09/21 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0379-0738(13)00025-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.01.019 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Forensic Sci Int. 2013 Mar 10;226(1-3):e42-7. doi: 
      10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.01.019. Epub 2013 Feb 19.