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Ulery 2011 study

Ulery et al. (2011), 'Accuracy and reliability of forensic latent fingerprint decisions,' PNAS 108(19): 7733-7738; the largest empirical black-box study of fingerprint examiner performance, finding a 0.1% false-positive rate and a 7.5% false-negative rate across 169 examiners and 744 comparison pairs.

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