The Statistician as Expert Witness

Joseph G. Van Matre · William N. Clark

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Legal processes and jurisprudence Jury Decision Making Processes Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection

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The statistician is playing an increasingly important role as consultant to the legal system, and such service will frequently involve expert testimony. This paper reviews the function and responsibilities of the expert witness, methods of providing testimony, and selected criminal and civil cases which utilized statistical techniques. The concluding section is devoted to ethical considerations.

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1969Decision Theory 1961Sample Design in Business Research.1915Wigmore on Evidence 1963Decision Theory in Law, Science, and Technology 1966The Application of Statistical Decision Theory to the Jury Discrimination Cases 1963Probability and Criminalistics

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