From Poisson to the present: Applying operations research to problems of crime and justice
In the 1830s Siméon-Denis Poisson developed the distribution that bears his name, basing it on the binomial distribution. He used it to show how the inherent variance in jury decisions affected the inferences that could be made about the probability of conviction in French courts. In recent years th...
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1996
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Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 1996, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-61 |
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