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Applying Statistics in the Courtroom

Author : Philip Good
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420035401
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Applying Statistics in the Courtroom written by Philip Good and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is directed at both attorneys and statisticians to ensure they will work together successfully on the application of statistics in the law. Attorneys will learn how best to utilize the statistician's talents, while gaining an enriched understanding of the law relevant to audits, jury selection, discrimination, environmental hazards, evidence, and torts as it relates to statistical issues. Statisticians will learn that the law is what judges say it is and to frame their arguments accordingly. This book will increase the effectiveness of both parties in presenting and attacking statistical arguments in the courtroom. Topics covered include sample and survey methods, probability, testing hypotheses, and multiple regression.

Statistical Science in the Courtroom

Author : Joseph L. Gastwirth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461212162
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Book Synopsis Statistical Science in the Courtroom by : Joseph L. Gastwirth

Download or read book Statistical Science in the Courtroom written by Joseph L. Gastwirth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert testimony relying on scientific and other specialized evidence has come under increased scrutiny by the legal system. A trilogy of recent U.S. Supreme Court cases has assigned judges the task of assessing the relevance and reliability of proposed expert testimony. In conjunction with the Federal judiciary, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has initiated a project to provide judges indicating a need with their own expert. This concern with the proper interpretation of scientific evidence, especially that of a probabilistic nature, has also occurred in England, Australia and in several European countries. Statistical Science in the Courtroom is a collection of articles written by statisticians and legal scholars who have been concerned with problems arising in the use of statistical evidence. A number of articles describe DNA evidence and the difficulties of properly calculating the probability that a random individual's profile would "match" that of the evidence as well as the proper way to intrepret the result. In addition to the technical issues, several authors tell about their experiences in court. A few have become disenchanted with their involvement and describe the events that led them to devote less time to this application. Other articles describe the role of statistical evidence in cases concerning discrimination against minorities, product liability, environmental regulation, the appropriateness and fairness of sentences and how being involved in legal statistics has raised interesting statistical problems requiring further research.

The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts

Author : Stephen E. Fienberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461236045
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Book Synopsis The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts by : Stephen E. Fienberg

Download or read book The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts written by Stephen E. Fienberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing frequency, the proof of facts in legal proceedings en tails the use of quantitative methods. Judges, lawyers, statisticians, social scientists, and many others involved in judicial processes must address is sues such as the evaluation and interpretation of quantitative evidence, the ethical and professional obligations of expert witnesses, and the roles of court-appointed witnesses. The Panel on Statistical Assessments as Evi dence in the Courts was convened to help clarify these issues and provide some guidance in addressing the difficulties encountered in the use of quan titative assessments in legal proceedings. This report is the culmination of more than three years of research and deliberation. In it, we address a variety of issues that arise in federal and state court proceedings when statistical assessments such as quantitative descriptions, causal inferences, and predictions of events based on earlier occurrences are presented as evidence. We appraise the forms in which such assessments are presented, aspects of their admission into evidence, and the response to and evaluation of them by judges and juries.

The Court Statistics Book

Author : Dr. Dennis.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1698711050
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Court Statistics Book written by Dr. Dennis. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides decisive guidance on the techniques in counting and classifying cases, which are applicable in any court system and also advances the use of sophisticated equilibrium modeling techniques in determining the optimal quantity of cases and timelines from filing to disposition. Crucially, this book also provides a detailed exposition on the application of twenty-nine statistical formula subdivided into twelve productivity metrics, eight time lag metrics, five civil case activity efficiency metrics, and four judicial resource management metrics. These metrics provide a solid basis for the effective management and mobilization of judicial resources. The book also uses regression analyses in analyzing the factors which explain court productivity in the Jamaican court system and found decisively that the single most important factor explaining court productivity in the civil and criminal jurisdictions of the parish courts was the demand for judicial services, suggesting that judges respond positively to increased demand by increasing output.

Math on Trial

Author : Leila Schneps
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465037941
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Math on Trial written by Leila Schneps and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty -- and your life -- can depend on the right calculation. In Math on Trial, mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used -- and disastrously misused -- as evidence. They tell the stories of Sally Clark, who was accused of murdering her children by a doctor with a faulty sense of calculation; of nineteenth-century tycoon Hetty Green, whose dispute over her aunt's will became a signal case in the forensic use of mathematics; and of the case of Amanda Knox, in which a judge's misunderstanding of probability led him to discount critical evidence -- which might have kept her in jail. Offering a fresh angle on cases from the nineteenth-century Dreyfus affair to the murder trial of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, Schneps and Colmez show how the improper application of mathematical concepts can mean the difference between walking free and life in prison. A colorful narrative of mathematical abuse, Math on Trial blends courtroom drama, history, and math to show that legal expertise isn't't always enough to prove a person innocent.

Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation

Author : Kaye
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824775148
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation written by Kaye and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1986-08-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping expert witnesses and consultants fulfill their professional responsibility by choosing the best statistical method for specific legal situations, this valuable reference surveys the most common methods already in use, describes their flaws and problems, anticipates significant new difficulties not previously identified, and supports the development and application of more refined techniques suited to the phenomena of discrimination. Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation considers the legal theories that underlie the collection and analysis of data for courtroom use ... discusses essential statistical techniques, such as the odds ratio, Mantel-Haenszel test, multiple linear regression analyses, competing psychometric concepts of fairness, and more ... outlines means of improving statistical presentations in court by more sophisticated data analysis techniques ... and brings together materials and references from law, statistics, and psychology in a unique synthesis. Introducing statisticians and social scientists to the legal concepts and methodological issues necessary for proving or rebutting claims of discrimination with statistical evidence, Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation is an important reference for applied statisticians; economists; psychologists; sociologists; attorneys and judges involved in discrimination litigation as well as experts who consult or testify in discrimination cases; advanced undergraduate statistics courses; and law school and graduate economics seminars on discrimination. Book jacket.

Statistical Science in the Courtroom

Author : Joseph L Gastwirth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461212171
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Statistical Science in the Courtroom written by Joseph L Gastwirth and published by . This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Math on Trial

Author : Leila Schneps
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465032923
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Math on Trial written by Leila Schneps and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the issues that can result when mathematical arguments are improperly used and discusses ten trials where this was the case, including the Dreyfus Affair, the case of Diana Sylvester, and Charles Ponzi's original scheme.

The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309121949
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-01-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992 the National Research Council issued DNA Technology in Forensic Science, a book that documented the state of the art in this emerging field. Recently, this volume was brought to worldwide attention in the murder trial of celebrity O. J. Simpson. The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence reports on developments in population genetics and statistics since the original volume was published. The committee comments on statements in the original book that proved controversial or that have been misapplied in the courts. This volume offers recommendations for handling DNA samples, performing calculations, and other aspects of using DNA as a forensic toolâ€"modifying some recommendations presented in the 1992 volume. The update addresses two major areas: Determination of DNA profiles. The committee considers how laboratory errors (particularly false matches) can arise, how errors might be reduced, and how to take into account the fact that the error rate can never be reduced to zero. Interpretation of a finding that the DNA profile of a suspect or victim matches the evidence DNA. The committee addresses controversies in population genetics, exploring the problems that arise from the mixture of groups and subgroups in the American population and how this substructure can be accounted for in calculating frequencies. This volume examines statistical issues in interpreting frequencies as probabilities, including adjustments when a suspect is found through a database search. The committee includes a detailed discussion of what its recommendations would mean in the courtroom, with numerous case citations. By resolving several remaining issues in the evaluation of this increasingly important area of forensic evidence, this technical update will be important to forensic scientists and population geneticistsâ€"and helpful to attorneys, judges, and others who need to understand DNA and the law. Anyone working in laboratories and in the courts or anyone studying this issue should own this book.

Prove It with Figures

Author : Hans Zeisel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781461273004
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Prove It with Figures written by Hans Zeisel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prove It With Figures displays some of the tools of the social and statistical sciences that have been applied in the courtroom and to the study of questions of legal importance. It explains how researchers can extract the most valuable and reliable data that can conveniently be made available, and how these efforts sometimes go awry. In the tradition of Zeisel's standard work "Say It with Figures," the authors clarify, in non-technical language, some of the basic problems common to all efforts to discern cause-and-effect relationships. Designed as a textbook for law students who seek an appreciation of the power and limits of empirical methods, this is also a useful reference for lawyers, policymakers, and members of the public who would like to improve their critical understanding of the statistics presented to them. The many case histories include analyses of the death penalty, jury selection, employment discrimination, mass torts, and DNA profiling.

Law as Data

Author : Michael A. Livermore
Publisher : Seminar
ISBN 13 : 9781947864139
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Law as Data written by Michael A. Livermore and published by Seminar. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the digitization of legal texts and developments in the fields of statistics, computer science, and data analytics have opened entirely new approaches to the study of law. This volume explores the new field of computational legal analysis, an approach marked by its use of legal texts as data. The emphasis herein is work that pushes methodological boundaries, either by using new tools to study longstanding questions within legal studies or by identifying new questions in response to developments in data availability and analysis. By using the text and underlying data of legal documents as the direct objects of quantitative statistical analysis, Law as Data introduces the legal world to the broad range of computational tools already proving themselves relevant to law scholarship and practice, and highlights the early steps in what promises to be an exciting new approach to studying the law.

Management Statistics for United States Courts

Author : United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Management Statistics for United States Courts written by United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Statistics for Lawyers

Author : Michael O. Finkelstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1441959858
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Statistics for Lawyers written by Michael O. Finkelstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text, first published in 1990, is designed to introduce law students, law teachers, practitioners, and judges to the basic ideas of mathematical probability and statistics as they have been applied in the law. The third edition includes over twenty new sections, including the addition of timely topics, like New York City police stops, exonerations in death-sentence cases, projecting airline costs, and new material on various statistical techniques such as the randomized response survey technique, rare-events meta-analysis, competing risks, and negative binomial regression. The book consists of sections of exposition followed by real-world cases and case studies in which statistical data have played a role. The reader is asked to apply the theory to the facts, to calculate results (a hand calculator is sufficient), and to explore legal issues raised by quantitative findings. The authors' calculations and comments are given in the back of the book. As with previous editions, the cases and case studies reflect a broad variety of legal subjects, including antidiscrimination, mass torts, taxation, school finance, identification evidence, preventive detention, handwriting disputes, voting, environmental protection, antitrust, sampling for insurance audits, and the death penalty. A chapter on epidemiology was added in the second edition. In 1991, the first edition was selected by the University of Michigan Law Review as one of the important law books of the year.

Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law

Author : Michael O. Finkelstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387875018
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law written by Michael O. Finkelstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When as a practicing lawyer I published my ?rst article on statistical evidence in 1966, the editors of the Harvard Law Review told me that a mathematical equa- 1 tion had never before appeared in the review. This hardly seems possible - but if they meant a serious mathematical equation, perhaps they were right. Today all that has changed in legal academia. Whole journals are devoted to scienti?c methods in law or empirical studies of legal institutions. Much of this work involves statistics. Columbia Law School, where I teach, has a professor of law and epidemiology and other law schools have similar “law and” professorships. Many offer courses on statistics (I teach one) or, more broadly, on law and social science. The same is true of practice. Where there are data to parse in a litigation, stat- ticians and other experts using statistical tools now frequently testify. And judges must understand them. In 1993, in its landmark Daubert decision, the Supreme Court commanded federal judges to penetrate scienti?c evidence and ?nd it “re- 2 liable” before allowing it in evidence. It is emblematic of the rise of statistics in the law that the evidence at issue in that much-cited case included a series of epidemiological studies. The Supreme Court’s new requirement made the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scienti?c Evidence, which appeared at about the same time, a best seller. It has several important chapters on statistics.

Measuring Racial Discrimination

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309091268
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Measuring Racial Discrimination written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-07-24 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discriminationâ€"pervasive and open denial of civil, social, political, educational, and economic opportunities. Today, large differences among racial and ethnic groups continue to exist in employment, income and wealth, housing, education, criminal justice, health, and other areas. While many factors may contribute to such differences, their size and extent suggest that various forms of discriminatory treatment persist in U.S. society and serve to undercut the achievement of equal opportunity. Measuring Racial Discrimination considers the definition of race and racial discrimination, reviews the existing techniques used to measure racial discrimination, and identifies new tools and areas for future research. The book conducts a thorough evaluation of current methodologies for a wide range of circumstances in which racial discrimination may occur, and makes recommendations on how to better assess the presence and effects of discrimination.

Juvenile Court Statistics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Juvenile Court Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Merritt and Simmons's Learning Evidence: from the Federal Rules to the Courtroom, 5th

Author : Deborah Jones Merritt (‡e author)
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781684675784
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Merritt and Simmons's Learning Evidence: from the Federal Rules to the Courtroom, 5th written by Deborah Jones Merritt (‡e author) and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CasebookPlus Hardbound - New, hardbound print book includes lifetime digital access to an eBook, with the ability to highlight and take notes, and 12-month access to a digital Learning Library that includes self-assessment quizzes tied to this book, online videos, interactive trial simulations, leading study aids, an outline starter, and Gilbert Law Dictionary.