Title: Explainable Forensic Evaluation for Trace Evidence

Executive Summary

Introduction: Statement of the Problem - Brittleness
  	Motivation
		NIJ report statement (no consistent method)
		Example: Pics of iris data set before and after using cliff
	Contributions
		Propose cliff to augment current models to reduce brittleness
		Propose knn+cliff as forensic model
		Results from knn+cliff are easy to explain to a jury
		Cliff runs in linear time

Related Work
	Forensic evaluation of trace evidence with univariate data (glass)
	Forensic evaluation of trace evidence with multivariate data (glass + spectra)
		Statistical and Bayesian Methods

CLIFF Design and Implementation
	Idea behind cliff: *to increase speed and reduce brittleness of evaluation - 
			    reduce instance space to only the best instances which 
			    represent each class
			   *to have a measure of how reliable results are
	Bore algorithm for ranking attribute values
	Instance selection algorithm

Implications for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States. 
	Measure of the reliability of forensic evaluation and speed can help 
        guide the direction of an investigation

Evaluation

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