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Statistics for Lawyers 4th Edition

Statistics for Lawyers 4th Edition

Author: Michael O. Finkelstein; Bruce Levin
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9781071641552

Previous Edition ISBN: 144195984X
Published In: January 2025
Format: Hardback
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This classic text, first published in 1990, is designed to introduce law students, law teachers, practitioners, and judges to the basic ideas of mathematical probability and statistics as they have been applied in the law.

The fourth edition includes fourteen new sections, four inserts to the statistical text, and six new answer sections, on topics including the following:

Use of prior probabilities after DNA database searches
Lipitor and diabetes
Harvard's affirmative action practices in admissions
New York City garbage trucks
Tests of odds ratio homogeneity
Disparate impact of a pre-employment exam on minority applicants
Liraglutide and pancreatic cancer
Representative sampling
Reversals in death-penalty cases
Technology assisted review in e-discovery
Asbestos and colon cancer
Guilty pleas in the federal courts
The "financing secured" event study, and
Average marginal effects

The book consists of sections of exposition followed by real-world cases and case studies in which statistical data have played a role. The reader is asked to apply the theory to the facts, to calculate results (a hand calculator is sufficient), and to explore legal issues raised by quantitative findings. The authors' calculations and comments are given in the back of the book. As with previous editions, the cases and case studies reflect a broad variety of legal subjects, including antidiscrimination, mass torts, taxation, school finance, identification evidence, preventive detention, handwriting disputes, voting, environmental protection, antitrust, sampling for insurance audits, and the death penalty.

Descriptive Statistics

Introduction to descriptive statistics

How to Count

Elements of Probability

Some Probability Distributions

Statistical Inference for Two Proportions

Comparing Multiple Proportions

Comparing Means

Combining Evidence Across Independent Strata

Sampling Issues

Epidemiology

Survival Analysis