Handbook of Probability: Theory and Applications

Julia Mortera; Philip Dawid

doi:10.4135/9781452226620

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Providing cutting-edge perspectives and real-world insights into the greater utility of probability and its applications, the Handbook of Probability offers an equal balance of theory and direct applications in a non-technical, yet comprehensive, format.

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Probability and Evidence

By: Julia Mortera & Philip Dawid
In:Handbook of Probability: Theory and Applications
Chapter DOI:https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452226620
Subject:Anthropology, Business and Management, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Communication and Media Studies, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Economics, Education, Geography, Health, History, Marketing, Nursing, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Social Policy and Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology, Science, Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine
Keywords:alleles; alleles; Bayes' theorem; Bayesian networks; chromosomes; chromosomes; courts; courts; crime; crime; databases; DNA; DNA; DNA profiling; DNA profiling; fathers; fathers; genes; genes; genotype; genotype; guilt; guilt; likelihood ratio; mutation; mutation; nodes; parenting; paternity; paternity; population; population; probability; ratio; security; security; Supreme Court; Supreme Court; traces; traces

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Probability and Evidence

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Legal applications of probabilistic and statistical reasoning have a long history, having exercised pioneers such as Nicolas Bernoulli, Condorcet, Laplace, Poisson, and Cournot (Zabell, 1988). After a period of neglect, ...

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