The Informational Output of a Crime Laboratory Depends Upon What

question 8

Multiple Choice

The informational output of a crime laboratory depends upon what?

• A) expertise of the laboratory staff
• B) physical evidence collected at the crime scene
• C) location of the laboratory in relation to major universities
• D) number and kinds of tests conducted

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the mean.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by adding all the values together and then dividing by the number of values.

Standard Deviations

An indicator of how much the values in a collection differ from each other.

Probability Density Functions

Mathematical functions that describe the likelihood of a continuous random variable taking on a particular value.