title: On the use of the likelihood ratio for forensic evaluation: response to Fenton et al.
abstract: This letter to the Editor comments on the article When 'neutral' evidence still has probative value (with implications from the Barry George Case) by N. Fenton et al. [[1], 2014].
authors.affiliation: University of Lausanne, Ecole des sciences criminelles, Institut de Police Scientifique, 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland; Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Department of Economics, Cannaregio 873, 30121 Venice, Italy. Electronic address: alex.biedermann@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Biedermann
authors.affiliation: University of Lausanne, Ecole des sciences criminelles, Institut de Police Scientifique, 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland. Electronic address: nathalie.hickschampod@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Tacha
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.affiliation: University of Lausanne, Ecole des sciences criminelles, Institut de Police Scientifique, 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland. Electronic address: franco.taroni@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Franco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Taroni
authors.affiliation: University of Lausanne, Ecole des sciences criminelles, Institut de Police Scientifique, 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland. Electronic address: christophe.champod@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Champod
authors.affiliation: University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom. Electronic address: c.g.g.Aitken@ed.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aitken
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D044707:Forensic Sciences / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008297:Male