Preliminary assessment of three quantitative approaches for estimating time-since-deposition from autofluorescence and morphological profiles of cell populations from forensic biological samples

• Amanda Elswick Gentry ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Amanda.gentry@vcuhealth.org

  Affiliations Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6425-9340

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• Sarah Ingram,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Forensic Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• M. Katherine Philpott,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forensic Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Kellie J. Archer,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Christopher J. Ehrhardt

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forensic Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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