Statistics for Lawyers

Statistics for Lawyers presents the science of statistics in action at the cutting edge of legal problems. A series of more than 90 case studies, drawn principally from actual litigation, have been selected to illustrate important areas of the law in whic

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Statistics for Lawyers With 39 Illustrations

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Michael 0. Finkelstein Columbia Law School Adjunct Faculty and Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith 1675 Broadway New York, NY 10019 USA

Bruce Levin School of Public Health Division of Biostatistics Columbia University New York, NY 10032 USA

Editorial Board Stephen Fienberg Department of Statistics Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

Ingram Olkin Department of Statistics Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 USA

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Finkelstein, Michael O. Statistics for lawyers / Michael O. Finkelstein, Bruce Levin. p. cm. - (Springer texts in statistics) ISBN-13: 978-0-387-97140-7 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-3328-2 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3328-2 I. Statistics. 2. Law-Statistical methods. II. Title. III. Series. QA276.12.F56 1990 OO1.4'22--

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Further Reading:

T. Wonnacott and R. Wonnacott, Introductory Statistics, ch. 5 (3d ed. 1977). 2 Int'l Encyclopedia of Statistics, W. Kruskal and J. Tanur, eds., 1109-18 (1978).

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