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53 Sun, 7/29/2018, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-West 120
Statistics and the Practice of Forensics — Invited Papers
Advisory Committee on Forensic Science, Committee on Law and Justice Statistics, Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Guillermo Basulto-Elias, Iowa State University
Chair(s): Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University
4:05 PM An Absolute Certainty: The General Scientific Community's Critical Role in Ensuring Justice

Peter Neufeld, Innocence Project
4:30 PM The Importance of Statistics in Distinguishing Opinion, Relevance, and Demonstrably Sufficient Science

Karen Kafadar, University of Virginia
4:55 PM Validating Science in an Open-Source Approach to Forensic Statistics: Algorithms, Data and Results
Heike Hofmann, Iowa State University
5:20 PM Track Forensic Science Reform from a Journalist's Perspective
Spencer S Hsu, The Washington Post
5:45 PM Floor Discussion