Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Table 5 Frequency, likelihood ratio and favor odd of different ridge dot density of right and left thumbprints

From: Application of likelihood ratio and posterior probability density in sex estimation from level two fingerprint features among Hausa ethnic group

Side	MD	Ridge dot
		Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Likelihood	Favor odd
		Frq	Frq	MD	MD	P (MD/C)	P (MD/C′)	Male	Male	Female
Right	0	36	53	0.34	0.50	0.69	1.01	0.68	0.40	0.60
	1	20	14	0.19	0.13	0.38	0.27	1.43	0.59	0.41
	2	14	6	0.13	0.06	0.27	0.11	2.33	0.70	0.30
	3	7	10	0.07	0.10	0.13	0.19	0.70	0.41	0.59
	4	8	3	0.08	0.03	0.15	0.06	2.67	0.73	0.27
	5	8	3	0.08	0.03	0.15	0.06	2.67	0.73	0.27
	6	1	4	0.01	0.04	0.02	0.08	0.25	0.20	0.80
	7	2	4	0.02	0.04	0.04	0.08	0.50	0.33	0.67
	8	1	1	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	1.00	0.50	0.50
	9	2	2	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.04	1.00	0.50	0.50
	10	1	2	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.50	0.33	0.67
	12	2	1	0.02	0.01	0.04	0.02	2.00	0.67	0.33
	13	1	1	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	1.00	0.50	0.50
	16	–	1	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	1.00
	17	1	–	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.00	–	1.00	0.00
	22	1	–	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.00	–	1.00	0.00
Left	0	46	90	0.44	0.86	0.88	1.71	0.51	0.34	0.66
	1	17	4	0.16	0.04	0.32	0.08	4.25	0.81	0.19
	2	12	5	0.11	0.05	0.23	0.10	2.40	0.71	0.29
	3	8	1	0.08	0.01	0.15	0.02	8.00	0.89	0.11
	4	3	1	0.03	0.01	0.06	0.02	3.00	0.75	0.25
	5	2	2	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.04	1.00	0.50	0.50
	6	6	1	0.06	0.01	0.11	0.02	6.00	0.86	0.14
	7	2	–	0.02	0.00	0.04	0.00	–	1.00	0.00
	8	1	–	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.00	–	1.00	0.00
	9	2	–	0.02	0.00	0.04	0.00	–	1.00	0.00
	10	3	–	0.03	0.00	0.06	0.00	–	1.00	0.00
	11	1	–	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.00	–	1.00	0.00
	12	–	2	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.00	1.00
	14	1	–	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.00	–	1.00	0.00
	16	1	–	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.00	–	1.00	0.00

MD minutiae density, Frq frequency, rMnt relative minutiae, C; C′; 0.5
Bold text indicates manutiae density with likelihood ratio that favor males or gives equal chance for both sexes

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