P.2d 385, 390 (Alaska App. 1985). 14 . United States v. Vallejo, 237 F.3d 1008, 1019 (9th Cir.2001). 15 . Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 592, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 2796, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993). 16 . United States v. Amaral, 488 F.2d 1148, 1152 (9th Cir.1973). 17 . Id. at 1152-53 (quoting Farris v. Interstate Circuit, 116 F.2d 409, 412 (5th Cir.1941)). 18 . Cohen v. W. Hotels, Inc., 276 F.2d 26, 27 (9th Cir.1960) (quoting Duff v. Page, 249 F.2d 137, 140 (9th Cir.1957) (concluding that a jury can determine, without expert assistance, whether the installation of carpet caused the edge o 6. 21 . 974 P.2d 386, 402 (Alaska 1999). 22 . FRE. 104(a) (Preliminary questions concerning the qualification of a person to be a witness, the existence of a priv . 278, 284 (U.S.A.F.1999) (<HOLDING>); State v. Cobb, 43 P.3d 855, 869
holding a proffer of testimony is required to preserve the issue of whether testimony was properly excluded by the trial judge and an appellate court will not consider error alleged in the exclusion of testimony unless the record on appeal shows fairly what the excluded testimony would have been holding that testimony of defense expert on false confessions properly excluded as not sufficiently reliable holding that the trial court committed prejudicial error when it excluded expert testimony on false confessions holding that under fedrevid 702 expert testimony must be reliable to be admissible holding that differential diagnosis rendered expert opinion on causation sufficiently reliable for admission