the many legal professionals and forensic engineers who want more information on uncertainty analysis and its potential applications in the courtroom. This detailed work gives you the facts and knowledge you need. Covering a wide range of topics ranging from probability and statistical variables, mathematical relationships and equations, to sensitivity and design of experiments, Uncertainty Analysis for Forensic Science, Second Edition serves to enlighten, inform and familiarize you with these particular ideas by applying scientific and medical knowledge to legal matters, giving you an edge in the courtroom. This new edition has been modified and expanded with more case study examples and analysis.

Topics Include:

• Unit systems
• SI Standards
• Significant Figures
• Probability
• Statistics
• Sample versus Population
• Probability functions for density and distribution
• Normalized variables
• Standard Deviation
• Uncertainty
• Theory and measurement
• Uncertainty as an estimated variance
• Systematic and random errors
• Measurement process errors
• Quantifying uncertainties
• General and detailed uncertainty analysis
• Finite-Difference uncertainties
• Interval uncertainty
• Uncertainty analysis using statistics
• Mathematical relationships
• Equations that relate statistical variables linearly
• Statistical variables related nonlinearly: approximate relationships
• Mean and variance of related variables
• Basics of experiment design
• Factorial Design
• Response surface and sensitivity
• Significance of results of a factorial design
• Full and fractional factorial designs
• Calculation of the sums of squares of main effects and interactions