Accuracy and reliability of forensic latent fingerprint decisions

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2011-04-25

• Fields of study

  Law, Computer Science, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1018707108PMID 21518906PMCID PMC3093498
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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