allfoilbias: Bias for each lineup member

In tmnaylor/r4lineups: Statistical Inference on Lineup Fairness

Description

Function to compute bias for each lineup member (assuming foil is suspect, from Malpass, 1981)

Usage

allfoilbias(lineup_table, target_pos, k)

Arguments

lineup_table	A table of lineup choices
target_pos	A scalar, representing target position in lineup. Must be declared by user
k	Nominal size (i.e., total number of members in lineup). Must be specified by user (scalar).

References

Malpass, R. S. (1981). Effective size and defendant bias in eyewitness identification lineups. Law and Human Behavior, 5(4), 299-309.

Examples

lineup_vec <- round(runif(100, 1, 6))
lineup_table <- table(lineup_vec)
x <- allfoilbias(lineup_table, 5, 6)

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