Table 1.
Reported accuracy of F/T examiners in selected studies.
| Author(s) | No. | Manufacturer | Seq. | Examiners | Design | Comparisons |
Error rate (FP/FN), percent |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartr. Cases | Bullets | Cartr. Cases | Bullets | ||||||
| Brundage, 1998 | 10 | Ruger | C | 30 | SB, C | 1020 | 0/0 | ||
| Bunch & Murphy, 2003 | 10 | Glock | C | 8 | DB, O | 360 | 0/0 | ||
| E. Smith, 2005 | 9 | Ruger | R | 8 | SB, C | 360 | 360 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| Fadul, 2011 | 10 | Glock | C | 183 | SB, C | 2745 | 0.4a/na | ||
| Fadul et al., 2013 | 10 | Ruger | C | 217 | SB, C | 3825 | 0.06a/na | ||
| Fadul et al., 2013 | 10 | Glock | C | 165 | SB, P | 1650 | 1.2a/na | ||
| Cazes & Goudeau, 2013 | 5 | HiPoint | C | 69 | SB, C | 552 | 0/0 | ||
| Baldwin et al., 2014 | 25 | Ruger | R | 218 | SB, O | 3270 | 0.94b/0.37b | ||
| Stroman, 2014 | 3 | Smith & Wesson | R | 25 | DB, C | 75 | 0/0 | ||
| Kerkhoff et al., 2015 | 10 | Various | R | 11 | DB, O | 341 | 55 | 0/0 | 0/0 |
| Hamby et al., 2016 | 1632 | Glock | R | 1 | NB, C | 13,30,896 | 0/na | ||
| T. Smith et al., 2016 | 8 | Various | R | 31 | DB, O | 2046 | 2046 | 0.14/0.43 | 0/0.11 |
| Keisler et al., 2018 | 9 | Various | R | 126 | SB, C | 2520 | 0/0 | ||
| Kerkhoff et al., 2018 | 1 39 |
Sig Sauer Glock |
R R |
10 | DB, O | 344 | 0/0 | ||
| Hamby et al., 2019 | 10 | Ruger | C | 697 | SB, C | 10,455 | 0.05b/na | ||
| J. Smith, 2020 | 35 | Various | C | 74 | SB, O | 7420 | 0.08/0.16 | ||
| Law & Morris, 2021 | 20 | Various | R | 17 | SB, O | 340 | 0.28/0 | ||
| This Study, 2021 | 23 4 10 10 |
Beretta Beretta Ruger Jimenez |
C R C C |
173 | DB, O | 10,110 | 10,020 | 0.93b/1.87b | 0.66b/2.87b |
Seq: C/R (consecutive/Random manufacturing sequence).
Design: SB/DB/NB (Single/Double/No) blinding; C/O/P (Closed/Open/Partly Open) set design.
False positive discovery rate.
Maximum likelihood estimate.