Statistics for Lawyers

• Main Authors: Finkelstein, Michael O. (Author), Levin, Bruce (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2001.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Statistics for Social Science and Behavorial Sciences
• Subjects: Statistics.; Commercial law.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Commercial Law.

Statistics for Lawyers 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 book consists of sections of exposition followed by real-world cases and case studies in which...

Table of Contents:

• Descriptive Statistics
• How to Count
• Elements of Probability
• Some Probability Distributions
• Statistical Inference for Two Proportions
• Comparing Multiple Proportions
• Comparing Means
• Combining Evidence Across Independent Strata
• Sampling Issues
• Epidemiology
• Survival Analysis
• Nonparametric Methods
• Regression Models
• More Complex Regression Models.