Essential Mathematics and Statistics for Forensic Science

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By Craig Adam

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Essential Mathematics and Statistics for Forensic Science provides a student-friendly introduction to the range of mathematical and statistical techniques crucial for forensic scientists. Starting from high school maths, it covers key quantitative analysis methods applied across forensic contexts, such as ballistics, post-mortem cooling, pharmacokinetics, glass evidence matching, bloodstain formation, and DNA profile interpretation. The text emphasises core skills including graph use, uncertainty evaluation, and advanced probability techniques like Bayesian evidence assessment, supplemented with numerous worked examples and self-assessment problems to enhance learning.
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This text is ideal for undergraduate students beginning forensic science degrees, postgraduate students, and forensic professionals seeking a practical reference focusing on quantitative methods in forensic analysis.

* Offers a unique mix of mathematics and statistics topics,specifically tailored to a forensic science undergraduatedegree. * All topics illustrated with examples from the forensic sciencediscipline. * Written in an accessible, student-friendly way to engageinterest and enhance learning and confidence.

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Essential Mathematics and Statistics for Forensic Science by Craig Adam is an accessible, student-friendly introduction to the wide range of mathematical and statistical tools needed by the forensic scientist in the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of experimental measurements.

Starting from a basis of high school mathematics, the book develops essential quantitative analysis techniques within the context of a broad range of forensic applications. This clearly structured text focuses on developing core mathematical skills together with an understanding of the calculations associated with the analysis of experimental work, including an emphasis on the use of graphs and the evaluation of uncertainties.

Through a broad study of probability and statistics, the reader is ultimately led to the use of Bayesian approaches to the evaluation of evidence within the court. In every section, forensic applications such as ballistic trajectories, post-mortem cooling, aspects of forensic pharmacokinetics, the matching of glass evidence, the formation of bloodstains, and the interpretation of DNA profiles are discussed, and examples of calculations are worked through. Each chapter contains numerous self-assessment problems to aid student learning.

Its broad scope and forensically focused coverage make this book an essential text for students embarking on any degree course in forensic science or forensic analysis, as well as an invaluable reference for post-graduate students and forensic professionals.

Key features:

Offers a unique mix of mathematics and statistics topics, specifically tailored to a forensic science undergraduate degree.
All topics illustrated with examples from the forensic science discipline.
Written in an accessible, student-friendly way to engage interest and enhance learning and confidence.
Assumes only a basic high-school level prior mathematical knowledge.

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Praised for its pedagogical approach, the book successfully relates mathematical concepts to forensic science through subject-specific examples. It addresses a broad forensic audience, including biologists, chemists, and physicists, and effectively integrates essential skills such as concentration calculations and standard curve plotting within a forensic framework.

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ISBN: 9780470742532

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 April 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: Tertiary education

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Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 608g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Craig Adam has over twenty years experience in teaching mathematics within the context of science at degree level. Initially this was within the physics discipline, but more recently he has developed and taught courses in mathematics and statistics for students in forensic science. As head of natural sciences at Staffordshire University in 1998, he led the initial development of forensic science degrees at that institution. Once at Keele University he worked within physics before committing himself principally to forensic science from 2004. His current research interests are focused on the use of chemometrics in the interpretation and evaluation of data from the analysis of forensic materials, particularly those acquired from spectroscopy. His teaching expertise areas within forensic science, apart from mathematics and statistics, include blood dynamics and pattern analysis, enhancement of marks and impressions, all aspects of document analysis, trace evidence analysis and evidence evaluation.