R/doc.R

In ForensicDocument: Quantification and evaluation tools for forensic document examiners

#load("data/characterO.RData")
#ls()
#characterO = list(info = info_O, measurements = table_O)
#save(characterO, file = "data/characterO.rda")

# require(bibtex)
# citationList <- read.bib(file = "REFERENCES.bib")
# citationList["bozza2008"]
# citationList["marquis2005"]

#' ForensicDocument package
#'
#' @description This package provides operational and useable methods and techniques for the analysis of handwriting, notably quantification of characters' shape and (ii) rigurous probabilistic inferntial procedures for coherent assesment of handwriting evidence. This package is developed in the School of Forensic Science - University of Lausanne. 
#' 
#' @author Alexandre Thiery, Silvia Bozza
#' @docType package
#' @name ForensicDocument-package
#' @aliases ForensicDocument
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#' Measurements of Fourier parameters on handwritten characters 'O'.
#' 
#' The \code{characterO} is a \code{list} that contains the extracted Fourier parameters and annotation for 650 handwritten characters 'O', written by 11 writers. It is a subset of the data collected by R. Marquis (see \emph{Marquis et al. (2005)}).
#' 
#' @format This \code{list} contains the following object:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{measurements}{A \eqn{554 x 13} \code{matrix}. It contains the extracted fourier parameters (the order 0 harmonic \eqn{A_0} and the first 6ths hamornics \eqn{an_i} and \eqn{bn_i}) for the 554 characters.}
#'   \item{info}{A \code{data.frame} containing the character's annotation. That is with columns
#'   \itemize{
#'   \item \code{writer} the writer's id (from \code{1} to \code{11})
#'   \item \code{page} the character's page number (from \code{1} to \code{5}).
#'   \item \code{number} the character's number on the page (from \code{1} to \code{10}).
#' }
#' }
#' }
#' @name characterO
#' @docType data
#' @author Alexandre Thiery \email{alexandre.thiery@@unil.ch}
#' @references Marquis R, Schmittbuhl M, Mazzela W and Taroni F (2005). "Quantification of the shape of handwritten characters: a step to objective discrimination between writers based on the study of the capital character O." \emph{Forensic Science International}, \bold{150}, pp. 23-32.
#' @keywords data forensic document handwritten handwriting
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