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ENFSI evaluative standard

The European Network of Forensic Science Institutes 'Standard for Formulation of Evaluative Forensic Science Expert Opinions' (2015/2016), which requires examiners to reason explicitly about two competing hypotheses and to express their opinion as support for one hypothesis relative to the other, using a verbal LR scale anchored to numerical intervals.

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Courtroom-language translation problemElimination (SWGDOC)Foundational validity as appliedIdentification (SWGDOC)Likelihood ratio (LR)No conclusion (SWGDOC position 5)PCAST 2016 reportPopulation-frequency anchoringSWGDOC nine-point scale

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