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Categorical identification

The historical fingerprint testimony model in which the examiner declares that the latent print originated from the named person to the exclusion of all other persons, carrying an implicit zero-error-rate claim. The model that the 2009 NAS report critique targeted.

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2009 NAS reportENFSI evaluative reporting frameworkFRStatLikelihood ratio (LR)NIST ELFT-EFS (2012)Population frequency databaseR v. T (2010)Ulery et al. 2011Verbal scale

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