FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION THEN AND NOW

Here we first give a summary of some historical cases where a statistical analysis was used in court cases: a case in a Chinese handbook dated 1247; a disputed inheritance dated 1865; the identification of inscriptions dated 30 AD; forensic identification in the Talmud; the miscarriage of justice in the Dreyfus affair. We then show the important impact that Bayesian networks have had on the solution of complex forensic identification problems.

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