Statistics and the Law
Published on 7. November 1986
Book
Hardback
504 pages
978-0-471-09435-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book describes a wide variety of applications of statistical concepts in legal settings, as well as cases in which statistical analyses were important elements. Several chapters are devoted to employment discrimination and antitrust violation, two areas of litigation that rely heavily on statistics. Contributors discuss the correct choice and use of statistical techniques in the assessment of damages, the measurement and quantification of skill, the determination of disputed paternity and elections, and other areas where statistics are used in legal cases. Many of the chapters are written by the statisticians who actually participated in the cases.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
850 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-09435-7 (9780471094357)
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Morris H. DeGroot | Stephen E. Fienberg | Joseph B. Kadane
Statistics and the Law
Book
11/1994
Wiley
€199.50
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Content
What Happened in Hazelwood: Statistics, Employment Discrimination, and the 80per cent Rule (P. Meier, et al.); Statistics in Antitrust Litigation (B. King); Regression Estimates of Damages in Price-Fixing Cases (M. Finkelstein & H. Levenbach); Regression Analyses in Employment Discrimination Cases (D. Conway & H. Roberts); Reynolds v ; C.S.N.: Evaluating Equipment Damage (G. Whitmore); A Question of Theft (W. Fairley & J. Glen); How Much Is Enough?; Applying Regression to a School Finance Case (J. Pincus & J. Rolph); Capital Market Analysis in Antitrust Litigation (M. Geisel & J. Masson); The Use of Court-Appointed Statistical Experts: A Case Study (R. Coulam & S. Fienberg); Does Electronic Draw Poker Require Skill to Play?; (J. Kadane); Inference in Cases of Disputed Paternity (D. Berry & S. Geisser); The Probability of Reversal in Contested Elections (D. Gilliland & P. Meier); Scientific Data and Environmental Regulation (G. Apple, et al.); Confidence Intervals in Legal Settings (H. Solomon); Indexes.