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Title: Applying Statistics in the Courtroom: A New Approach for Attorneys and Expert Witnesses

Price: $74.95

ISBN: 1584882719

Publication Date: 2001

# of Pages: 296

  • Offers a comprehensive guide to the application of statistics and probability in jury selection, audits, employment discrimination, trademark disputes, criminal law, and product liability
  • Provides a step-by-step guide for statisticians called as expert witnesses
  • Presents the principles of statistics and probability not as a series of symbols, but in the words of jurists
  • Includes numerous citations that can be used to defend the use of particular techniques
  • Discusses both the strengths and the weaknesses of various statistical procedures
  • Provides judicial opinions that interpret statistical evidence and can be inserted directly into briefs and oral arguments
  • Demonstrates the effective use of statistics during the discovery and trial process

    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.
   
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