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CYstarters Program Helps Advance Statistical Ballistic Research

August 23, 2017

When Eric Hare learned that bullet-matching procedures were done without any determination of error rates, he knew the system needed to be improved.

"There should be more than just one person making a declaration of match or not match," Hare said. "It should be, ‘Here's the probability. Here's how much error we could possibly have.’ The juries need to know that so they don't send someone to either death or life in prison on something that wasn't all that scientifically determined."

Ph. D Final Oral: Eric Hare

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 3:10pm

Title: Statistical Methods for Bullet Matching
Date/Time: April 5th, 2017 @ 3:10 PM
Place: 2113 Snedecor Hall 
Major Professor: Kris De Brabanter, Heike Hofmann
Committee Members: Ulrike Genschel, Sigurdur Olafsson, Jin Tian

Abstract: