1st Semester: FPS (Forensic Psychology and Statistics)

some useful links and text book material:

UNIT-I
1.Forensic Psychology and the Law

Handbook of Forensic Psychology by Vimala Veeraraghavan pp 1-8

2.Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychology, Civil and criminal case assessment

Handbook of Forensic Psychology by Vimala Veeraraghavan pp 215
3.Assessing metal competency, Mental disorders and Forensic Psychology
4.Crime and Psychopathology, Genetics and Crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_of_aggression
Handbook of Forensic Psychology by Vimala Veeraraghavan pp162-163, 165

Handbook of Forensic Psychology by Vimala Veeraraghavan pp155
5.Psychological Assessment
Handbook of Forensic Psychology by Vimala Veeraraghavan pp15-34
6.Personal History, Mental Status Examination, Psychological Assessment Tools,
Purpose of Psychological Assessment
Handbook of Forensic Psychology by Vimala Veeraraghavan pp154-170

7.Detection of deception, Various methods for detection of deception
 
8.Interview, Non-verbal detection, statement assessment, Hypnosis, Psychological assessment, adoptive profiling system, voice stress analyzer, Polygraph, thermal imaging, Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature Profiling, functional magnetic resonance study

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprinting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_detection
 Michael Shermer Tests the Polygraph and Lie Detection Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLL3wtgBiFA

Michael Shermer Tests the Polygraph and Lie Detection Part 2 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJXMrJJMNZ4

 Pamela Meyer- How to spot a liar
 https://www.ted.com/talks/pamela_meyer_how_to_spot_a_liar?language=en

 Voice stress analysis
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_stress_analysis

additional material:
The Truth About Lie Detection
 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spycatcher/201203/the-truth-about-lie-detection
 The LVA (Layered Voice Analysis) Technology
 http://nemesysco.com/speech-analysis-technology
http://www.axxonet.com/forensics/11-forensics/16-about-brain-signature-profiling-beos
http://www.omicsonline.org/2157-7145/2157-7145-S1.005-006.pdf

Computer Voice Stress Analyzer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TupLm1pqo6U
 Criminal Minds - Professor Glenn D Wilson:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVNq-dcHXrQ
How it Works- Polygraph Test
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po_DCBGExP4
 Layered Voice Analysis introduction
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c6Md3TgGCE
 
9.Current research in detection of deception/truth finding mechanisms

UNIT-II
1.Historical aspects of Polygraph, Principles of polygraph
2.psycho physiological aspects, operational aspects
3.Question formulation techniques, Interviewing technique procedure
4.Chart recording, chart analysis methodology, chart interpretation skills
5.The Art-Polygraph, Legal and Ethical aspects, Human rights of individual.
Handbook of Forensic Psychology by Vimala Veeraraghavan pp49-74

6.Historical aspects of brain signature profiling
7.Principles of Brain Signature profiling, Nero psychological aspects, operational aspects, probe preparation, EEG-ER recording, analysis methodology and interpretation skills
8. Legal and Ethical aspects, Human rights of individual

Handbook of Forensic Psychology by Vimala Veeraraghavan pp123-138
9. Hypnosis, Requirements of Hypnosis
10. Applications of Hypnosis, Sense of Hypnosis
11. Forensic Hypnosis, Artificial Hypnosis/Narco analysis, General Procedure, Legal and Ethical aspects, Human rights of individual

Handbook of Forensic Psychology by Vimala Veeraraghavan pp77-100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_serum
 
UNIT-III
1.Biostatistics: its meaning and objectives, Levels of measurements, nominal ordinal interval & ratio scales. Fundamental concept of population, samples, variables, parameters and statistics, frequency, proportion, percentages and ratios. Graphical representation of data frequency curves.
2.Measures of central tendency, mean, median and mode. Measures of diepersion: range, interquartile range, 10-90 percentile range, standard deviation and variance. Moments-moment coefficient of skewness and kurtosis.
3.Concept of probability-properties and uses. Bayes’ theorem, normal, binomial and poisson distribution.
4.Sampling methods and sampling theory. Confidence limit, level of significance and critical region Type I and Type II errors. Standard error of a statistic.


UNIT-IV
1. Testing of statistical hypothesis, single sample tests involving means proportions. Two sample tests, difference between means and proportions. Student’s t-test, chi-square test and F-test.
2. Introduction to non-parametric statistics. Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test.
Kolomogrov- Smirnov one sample and two sample test.
3. Linear correlation and regression. Standard error of estimate. Test of significance involving coefficients of linear correlation coefficient.









Basics of Statistics:
http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/jmisotal/BoS.pdf


statistics: definition and uses:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz62yClI2PxzcEpIOEZOc1dIWHM/view?usp=sharing

Normal , Binomial and Poisson Distribution

http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~xuanyaoh/stat350/xyJan20Lec3.pdf

Table of Standard Normal Probabilities

http://clas.sa.ucsb.edu/staff/binh/stdNormalTable.pdf

http://pascencio.cos.ucf.edu/classes/Methods/Presentations/The%20Binomial,%20Poisson,%20and%20Normal%20Distributions.ppt

Poisson Distribution

http://stattrek.com/probability-distributions/poisson.aspx 

Normal Distribution ( Part 1-2 )

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmT12Ipigc

Normal Distribution (Part 2)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJwiaDxBW-Q

skewness and kurtosis

 http://www.graphpad.com/guides/prism/6/statistics/index.htm?stat_skewness_and_kurtosis.htm

http://www.investopedia.com/exam-guide/cfa-level-1/quantitative-methods/statistical-skew-kurtosis.asp

http://brownmath.com/stat/shape.htm

Standardized moment:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardized_moment

Bayes’ Theorem

http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-and-short-explanation-of-bayes-theorem/ 

 Basic Concepts of sampling:

http://denninginstitute.com/modules/dau/stat/data/sample_bdy.html 

  Hypothesis Test: Difference Between Means

http://stattrek.com/hypothesis-test/difference-in-means.aspx?Tutorial=AP

 

Hypothesis Test: Difference Between Proportions

http://stattrek.com/hypothesis-test/difference-in-proportions.aspx?Tutorial=AP

http://stattrek.com/sampling/difference-in-proportion.aspx

  Hypothesis Testing for Means & Proportions

http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/BS/BS704_HypothesisTest-Means-Proportions/BS704_HypothesisTest-Means-Proportions_print.html

  Hypothesis Test for a Proportion

 http://stattrek.com/hypothesis-test/proportion.aspx?Tutorial=AP

 Hypothesis Testing - Chi Squared Test

 http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/BS/BS704_HypothesisTesting-ChiSquare/BS704_HypothesisTesting-ChiSquare_print.html

 Difference between Z-test, F-test, and T-test

 https://brandalyzer.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/difference-between-z-test-f-test-and-t-test/

F Test to Compare Two Variances:

http://www.statisticshowto.com/how-to-conduct-a-statistical-f-test-to-compare-two-variances/

  Hypothesis Test for Regression Slope

 http://stattrek.com/regression/slope-test.aspx?Tutorial=AP

 Wilcoxon Mann Whitney Test 

http://people.stat.sc.edu/hendrixl/stat205/Lecture%20Notes/Wilcoxon%20Mann%20Whitney%20Test.pdf

Non-parametric Statistics Overview (first page only)

http://www.originlab.com/doc/Tutorials/NonparametricStatisticsOverview

Important Statistics Formulas

http://stattrek.com/statistics/formulas.aspx

 

Some useful links for other topics are: 

 Criminal Minds - Professor Glenn D Wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVNq-dcHXrQ

How to be a lie detector - Professor Glenn D Wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PGGzkl8TLs

Forensic Files in HD- Season 13 - Ep 20  'DNA Dragnet'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIV-f8h7R8w

Michael Shermer Tests the Polygraph and Lie Detection Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLL3wtgBiFA

Michael Shermer Tests the Polygraph and Lie Detection Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJXMrJJMNZ4

How it Works- Polygraph Test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po_DCBGExP4

 

 

Practicals:

basic commands: 

setwd("C:/Users/hp/Desktop")
dataset <- a.txt="" br="" esktop="" hp="" read.table="" sers="">fix(dataset)
summary(dataset)
with(dataset, hist(V1)
t.test(dataset$V1, mu=20.0)

 a few tutorials:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150404164750/http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/jager/courses/sm439/labs/Lab5.pdf

 http://ww2.coastal.edu/kingw/statistics/R-tutorials/goodness.html

http://ww2.coastal.edu/kingw/statistics/R-tutorials/