Math on trial. How numbers get used and abused in the courtroom

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Authors: Leila Schneps, Coralie Colmez 

Publication date: 9 August 2013

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zbMATH Keywords

probability and statisticsapplication of mathe in forensic sciencecourt process with failureerroneous trialforensic evidence of possible crimejudge and courtmath arguments for the possible innocencemisunderstanding of probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General applied mathematics (00A69) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics (62-01) Popularization of mathematics (00A09) Education of combinatorics, graph theory, probability theory, and statistics (97Kxx)

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