The Problem of Civil and Criminal Identification -- Bayesian Networks Approach

2025/11/19 by Andrade, Marina, Ferreira, Manuel Alberto M.
#FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.21719

Abstract

DNA evidence use in problems of civil and criminal identification is becoming greater. The necessity of evaluating the weight of that evidence may be accomplished using one of the most known powerful tools: the Bayesian networks. In the current paper this will be illustrated through the presentation of a civil identification problem and of a criminal identification problem.

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