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

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Tue, 7/31/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-West 215/216
So You Think You Can Predict Crime? Lessons Learned from the NIJ Spatiotemporal Crime Forecasting Competition — Invited Panel
Committee on Law and Justice Statistics, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): William Herlands, Carnegie Mellon University; Charles Loeffler, University of Pennsylvania
Chair(s): Charles Loeffler, University of Pennsylvania
8:35 AM Committee on Law and Justice Statistics
Presentation 1 Presentation 2 Presentation 3 Presentation 4 Presentation 5
Panelists: Joel Hunt, National Institute of Justice
Patryk Miziula, deepsense.ai
George Mohler, IUPUI
Tuanjie Tong, Intuidex, Inc.
Dylan Fitzpatrick, Carnegie Mellon University
10:10 AM Floor Discussion