214 Forensic Laboratory Management: Applying Business Principles
Forensic Scientist Student: For the statistics that I generated for this DNA
prole, we perform what is called a Random Match Probability.
And on my chart I showed you that there are dierent variations
at each marker, so we take the frequency of those variations at one
marker, and we multiply it by the frequency of the variations seen
at the next marker … and we do this for all 13 markers, and that’s
how we generated the random match probability.
(Displays chart from report on the projector screen.)
Prosecutor: is is the chart that came from your report, right?
(Shows Forensic Scientist Student her name/initials.)
Forensic Scientist Student: Yes.
Prosecutor: at’s the chart that ...