Statistics for Lawyers

This classic text, first published in 1990, 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 third edition includes over twenty new sections, including the addition of timely topics, like New York City police stops, exonerations in death-sentence cases, projecting airline costs, and new material on various statistical techniques such as the randomized response survey technique, rare-events meta-analysis, competing risks, and negative binomial regression. The book consists of sections of exposition followed by real-world cases and case studies in which statistical data have played a role. The reader is asked to apply the theory to the facts, to calculate results (a hand calculator is sufficient), and to explore legal issues raised by quantitative findings. The authors' calculations and comments are given in the back of the book. As with previous editions, the cases and case studies reflect a broad variety of legal subjects, including antidiscrimination, mass torts, taxation, school finance, identification evidence, preventive detention, handwriting disputes, voting, environmental protection, antitrust, sampling for insurance audits, and the death penalty. A chapter on epidemiology was added in the second edition. In 1991, the first edition was selected by the University of Michigan Law Review as one of the important law books of the year.

Acest text clasic, publicat pentru prima data in 1990, este conceput pentru a introduce studentilor in drept, profesorii de drept, practicienii si judecatorii la ideile de baza ale probabilitatii matematice si statisticilor, asa cum au fost aplicate in lege. A treia editie include peste douazeci de sectiuni noi, inclusiv adaugarea de subiecte la timp, cum ar fi opririle politiei din New York, exonerari in cazurile de condamnare la moarte, proiectia costurilor companiilor aeriene si material nou despre diverse tehnici statistice, cum ar fi tehnica sondajului de raspuns randomizat, rare -evenimente meta-analiza, riscuri concurente si regresie binomiala negativa.