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. 2022 Feb 19;4:100221. doi: 10.1016/j.fsisyn.2022.100221

Table 1.

Reported accuracy of F/T examiners in selected studies.

Author(s) No. Manufacturer Seq. Examiners Design Comparisons
Error rate (FP/FN), percent
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.

a

False positive discovery rate.

b

Maximum likelihood estimate.