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Transfer and persistence

The processes by which soil particles move from a source to an evidence item and remain there; relevant to forensic comparison design because both the amount transferred and the time since transfer affect the questioned sample's representativeness.

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Bayesian inferenceControl sampleENFSI ENG-FG1FBI Soil Examination UnitLikelihood ratio (LR)Mahalanobis distanceMurray-Tedrow frameworkPrincipal component analysis (PCA)Prosecution propositionVerbal LR scaleWithin-scene variability

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