RT Book
T1 Math on trial: how numbers get used and abused in the courtroom
A1 Schneps, Leila
A1 Colmez, Coralie
A2 Colmez, Coralie
LA English
PP New York
PB Basic Books
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1605357766
AB Math error number 1 : multiplying non-independent probabilities : the Clark case : motherhood under attack -- Math error number 2 : unjustified estimates : the case of Janet Collins : hairstyle probability -- Math error number 3 : trying to get something from nothing : the case of Joe Sneed : absent from the phone book -- Math error number 4 : double experiment : the case of Amanda Knox : media versus justice -- Math error number 5 : the birthday problem : the cold case of Diana Sylvester -- Math error number 6 : Simpson's paradox : the Berkeley sex bias case -- Math error number 7 : "the incredible coincidence" : the case of Lucia de Berk : carer or killer? -- Math error number 8 : underestimation : Charles Ponzi : American dream, American scheme -- Math error number 9 : choosing a wrong model : the case of Hetty Green : a battle of wills -- Math error number 10: mathematical madness : the Dreyfus case : spy or scapegoat?
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN K2290.S73
SN 978-0-465-03292-1
K1 Forensic statistics