Abstract

This article reflects the results of an analysis of the state of affairs in the field of knowledge focused on solving problems of personal identification. In addition, scientific approaches are considered that have probabilistic chances for development and broad prospects as future methodologies in this branch of scientific knowledge. The essence of the work can be described as a meta-analysis of data from various researchers. Taking into account this analysis, our own statistical and mathematical considerations are also given. It is concluded that, in the context of mathematics and cybernetics, personal identification methods based on earlier diagnostic methods are not inferior to the results of DNA analysis when several different traditional methods are used simultaneously.

Keywords

person identification, forensic anthropology, DNA technologies, Bayes' theorem, mathematical cybernetics