The owner of a fast-food restaurant showed her sales books to an accountancy professor who also happened to be a forensic analyst.

An investigation by a forensic analyst, with input from ornithologists and orthopterists, concluded that the sound was that of the bee-eater.

The forensic analyst was creating a record whereas the clerk was authenticating a record already in existence.

Additionally, in its current state, stochastic forensics requires a trained forensic analyst to apply and evaluate.