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Citation

Polissar NL, Suwanvijit W, Gullberg RG. J. Forensic Sci. 2014; 60(2): 482-487.

Affiliation

The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistics, 1827 23rd Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98112.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1556-4029.12659

PMID

25421261

Abstract

Drunk driving is a serious threat to public safety. All available and appropriate tools for curbing this threat should be employed to their full extent. The handheld pre-arrest breath test instrument (PBT) is one tool for identifying the alcohol-impaired driver and enforcing drunk driving legislation. A set of data was evaluated (n = 1779) where the PBT instrument was employed in drunk driving arrests to develop a multivariate predictive model. When maintained and operated by trained personnel, the PBT provides a reasonable estimate of the evidential test result within the relevant forensic range (95% prediction interval:  ± 0.003 g/210 L). ROC analysis shows that a multivariate model for PBT prediction of the evidentiary alcohol concentration above versus below the legal limit of 0.08 g/210 L has excellent performance with an AUC of 0.96. These results would be of value in evidential hearings seeking to admit the PBT results in drunk driving trials.


Language: en

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