Introduction to statistics for forensic scientists / David Lucy.

By: Lucy, DavidMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: english Publication details: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2005Description: xiv, 251 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 0470022000; 0470022019Subject(s): Forensic sciences -- Statistical methods | Forensic statistics | Evidence (Law) -- Statistical methodsDDC classification: 519.5024 LOC classification: HV8073 | L94Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description
Contents:
A short history of statistics in the law -- Data types, location, and dispersion -- Probability -- The normal distribution -- Measures of nominal and ordinal association -- Correlation -- Regression and calibration -- Evidence evaluation -- Conditional probability and Bayes' theorem -- Relevance and the formulation of propositions -- Evaluation of evidence in practice -- Evidence evaluation examples -- Errors in interpretation -- DNA I -- DNA II -- Sampling and sample size estimation -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-247) and index.

A short history of statistics in the law -- Data types, location, and dispersion -- Probability -- The normal distribution -- Measures of nominal and ordinal association -- Correlation -- Regression and calibration -- Evidence evaluation -- Conditional probability and Bayes' theorem -- Relevance and the formulation of propositions -- Evaluation of evidence in practice -- Evidence evaluation examples -- Errors in interpretation -- DNA I -- DNA II -- Sampling and sample size estimation -- Epilogue.

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