Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law

• Main Author: Finkelstein, Michael O. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Subjects: Law.; Law > Philosophy.; Statistics.; Fundamentals of Law.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

This book sets out basic statistical tools as they have been applied in actual legal disputes. Examples range over diverse fields of law, such as identification evidence, mass torts, securities law, environmental regulation, and capital punishment, among many others. In some notable cases, such as t...

Table of Contents:

• Probability
• Descriptive Tools
• Compound Events
• Significance
• Random Variables and Their Distributions
• Confidence
• Power
• Sampling
• Epidemiology
• Combining the Evidence
• Regression Models
• Regression Models – Further Considerations.