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Association and 
Reconstruction — 
 
Inference of Contact
A.
Association ............................................................................................ 158
1.
Evidence and the Law Revisited ................................................... 158
a.
The Lawyer, the Scientist, and Relevance ............................. 158
2.
Inferential Reasoning in Science .................................................. 160
a.
Science and Inductive Inference ........................................... 160
i. The Alternate Explanation .............................................. 163
ii. Uncertainty ....................................................................... 164
3.
Inferential Reasoning in Forensic Science ................................... 165
a.
Association and Interpretation — A Divergence of 
Understanding ........................................................................ 165
b.
Inference and Association...................................................... 166
c.
Inference and Interpretation ................................................. 168
d.
The Source of the Confusion ................................................ 168
4.
Definition of Association.............................................................. 169
5.
Associating Two Objects through an Inference of Contact ....... 170
a.
A Bayesian Framework for Inferential Thinking — 
Principle or Practice............................................................... 170
b.
Hypothesis Testing and Likelihood Ratios ........................... 171
c.
The Analyst and the Evidence — Articulating 
Hypotheses.............................................................................. 172
d.
Absence of Evidence .............................................................. 173
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