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information entity > graph > confidence-accuracy characteristic curve

Preferred term

confidence-accuracy characteristic curve  

Definition

  • A curve that indicates the relationship between the level of confidence that eyewitnesses express about the identification of a suspect and the accuracy of the identification (by taking into account the number of correct identification of a guilty suspect and the number of incorrect identification of an innocent suspect).

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Entry terms

  • CAC curve

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Brewer, N., Lucas, C., Sauer, J., & Palmer, M. (2021). Measuring the relationship between eyewitness identification confidence and accuracy. In A. M. Smith, M. P. Toglia, & J. M. Lampinen (Eds.), Methods, measures, and theories in eyewitness identification tasks (pp. 234–256). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003138105-14

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Mickes, L. (2015). Receiver operating characteristic analysis and confidence–accuracy characteristic analysis in investigations of system variables and estimator variables that affect eyewitness memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(2), 93–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.01.003

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Wixted, J. T., & Wells, G. L. (2017). The relationship between eyewitness confidence and identification accuracy: A new synthesis. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 18(1), 10–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100616686966

    [Study type: literature review / Access: free]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-CJPGFSV6-1

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