Applying Statistics in the Courtroom: A New Approach for Attorneys and Expert Witnesses
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Review
This is the best book on statistics and the law that has ever been written…The author has written this text 'for two audiences with a single common goal: to ensure attorneys and statisticians will work together successfully on the application of statistics and the law'…Unless your company never appears in any adversarial proceeding, this book should be on your bookshelf. It is profusely illustrated with a wealth of cases that will interest any statistician.
- Technometrics, May 2002
Book Description
This publication is directed at both the attorney and the statistician to ensure they will successfully apply statistics in the law. The attorney will learn how best to utilize statistics while gaining an enriched understanding of the law on 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. Applying Statistics in the Courtroom: A New Approach for Attorneys and Expert Witnesses will increase the effectiveness of both the attorney and the statistician in presenting and attacking statistical arguments in the courtroom.
Applying Statistics in the Courtroom: A New Approach for Attorneys and Expert Witnesses
Applying Statistics in the Courtroom: A New Approach for Attorneys and Expert Witnesses,Phillip I. Good,Chapman & Hall/CRC,1584882719,Applied,Courts - General,Forensic Oratory,Forensic Science,Forensic statistics,Law,Legal Reference / Law Profession,Mathematical Statistics,Probability & Statistics - General,United States,Applied mathematics,Legal skills & practice,Mathematics / Statistics,Probability & statistics
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