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I don't see how any of those things prevent the methodology I described being applied.

• hackuser 11y ago
  For example, you say, > If the suspect is a better match than N(1-p) of the other fingerprints, then the match has a p-value of p. There may be no way to objectively determine if the suspect's prints are a better match than others. More generally, I lack your expertise but it seems to me that statistics require data; we may not have reliable data. More colloquially, garbage in, garbage out. Anyway, I recommend the National Academy of Sciences report, which is authored in part by their Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics.