The University of Washington School of Law and the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics (School of Public Health) host the 8th International Conference on Forensic Inference Statistics July 18-21, 2011, at the School of Law.
The area of statistical reasoning applied to forensic science has undergone a rapid growth and development both theoretically but also in applied research, becoming a highly interdisciplinary field. This conference is the only forum where police officers, forensic scientists, jurists, scholars from related disciplines and statisticians meet to discuss the constraints, mechanisms and opportunities to provide statistical and inferential support to the decision making process either at level of the investigation or in court.
Short courses (July 18) cover Probabalistic Reasoning for Judges and Lawyers, Statistical Methods for DNA Evidence, and Bayesian Networks in Forensic Science. mw
