| 期刊全稱(chēng) | Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law | | 影響因子2023 | Michael O. Finkelstein | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/181/180991/180991.mp4 | | 發(fā)行地址 | Provides a basic introduction to concepts of probability and statistics specifically for lawyers | | 圖書(shū)封面 |  | | 影響因子 | When as a practicing lawyer I published my ?rst article on statistical evidence in 1966, the editors of the Harvard Law Review told me that a mathematical equa- 1 tion had never before appeared in the review. This hardly seems possible - but if they meant a serious mathematical equation, perhaps they were right. Today all that has changed in legal academia. Whole journals are devoted to scienti?c methods in law or empirical studies of legal institutions. Much of this work involves statistics. Columbia Law School, where I teach, has a professor of law and epidemiology and other law schools have similar “l(fā)aw and” professorships. Many offer courses on statistics (I teach one) or, more broadly, on law and social science. The same is true of practice. Where there are data to parse in a litigation, stat- ticians and other experts using statistical tools now frequently testify. And judges must understand them. In 1993, in its landmark Daubert decision, the Supreme Court commanded federal judges to penetrate scienti?c evidence and ?nd it “re- 2 liable” before allowing it in evidence. It is emblematic of the rise of statistics in the law that the evidence at issue in that much-cited case in | | Pindex | Textbook 2009 |
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