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Statistics for Lawyers 4th ed


ISBN13: 9781071641552
Previous Edition ISBN: 144195984X
To be Published: December 2024
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Hardback
Price: £119.99



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 fourth edition includes fourteen new sections, four inserts to the statistical text, and six new answer sections, on topics including the following:

  • Use of prior probabilities after DNA database searches
  • Lipitor and diabetes
  • Harvard's affirmative action practices in admissions
  • New York City garbage trucks
  • Tests of odds ratio homogeneity
  • Disparate impact of a pre-employment exam on minority applicants
  • Liraglutide and pancreatic cancer
  • Representative sampling
  • Reversals in death-penalty cases
  • Technology assisted review in e-discovery
  • Asbestos and colon cancer
  • Guilty pleas in the federal courts
  • The "financing secured" event study, and
  • Average marginal effects

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.

Subjects:
Evidence
Contents:
Descriptive Statistics
Introduction to 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
Appendix I: Calculations and Comments on the Cases
Appendix II: Tables
Glossary of Symbols
List of Cases
Bibliography
Subject Index