How \u3ci\u3eDaubert\u3c/i\u3e and its Progeny Have Failed Criminalistics Evidence and a Few Things the Judiciary Could Do About It. [PDF]
, 2018 Part I documents how courts have failed to faithfully apply Daubert’s criteria for scientific validity to this type of evidence. It describes how ambiguities and flaws in the terminology adopted in Daubert combinedwith the opaqueness of forensic-science ...
Kaye, David H.
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How Does Science Come to Speak in the Courts? Citations Intertexts, Expert Witnesses, Consequential Facts, and Reasoning [PDF]
, 2009 Citations, in their highly conventionalized forms, visibly indicate each texts explicit use of the prior literature that embodies the knowledge and contentions of its field.
Bazerman, Charles
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Existence of the signal in the signal plus background model
, 2006 Searching for evidence of neutrino oscillations is an important problem in particle physics. Suppose that evidence for neutrino oscillations from an LSND experiment reports a significant positive oscillation probability, but that the LSND result is not ...
Zhang, Tonglin
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Shrinkage Estimation in Multilevel Normal Models
, 2012 This review traces the evolution of theory that started when Charles Stein in 1955 [In Proc. 3rd Berkeley Sympos. Math. Statist. Probab. I (1956) 197--206, Univ.
Lysy, Martin, Morris, Carl N.
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A generalized risk approach to path inference based on hidden Markov models
, 2012 Motivated by the unceasing interest in hidden Markov models (HMMs), this paper re-examines hidden path inference in these models, using primarily a risk-based framework. While the most common maximum a posteriori (MAP), or Viterbi, path estimator and the
Koloydenko, Alexey A., Lember, Jüri
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Posterior propriety and admissibility of hyperpriors in normal hierarchical models
, 2005 Hierarchical modeling is wonderful and here to stay, but hyperparameter priors are often chosen in a casual fashion. Unfortunately, as the number of hyperparameters grows, the effects of casual choices can multiply, leading to considerably inferior ...
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The Admissibility of Differential Diagnosis Testimony to Prove Causation in Toxic Tort Cases: The Interplay of Adjective and Substantive Law [PDF]
, 2001 This article uses the differential diagnosis opinions to explore a pair of interrelationships. The basic causal framework employed by most courts in toxic tort cases is presented.
Machal-Fulks, Julie, Sanders, Joseph
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A THEORY OF RATIONAL CHOICE UNDER COMPLETE IGNORANCE [PDF]
This paper contributes to a theory of rational choice under uncertainty for decision-makers whose preferences are exhaustively described by partial orders representing ""limited information."" Specifically, we consider the limiting case of ""Complete ...
Klaus Nehring, Massimiliano Marcellino
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Why Technology Provides Compelling Reasons to Apply a Daubert Analysis to the Legal Standard of Care in Medical Malpractice Cases [PDF]
, 2006 Traditionally, courts have applied a customary practice standard in determining the legal standard of care in medical malpractice cases. Recently, a few courts have abandoned this dated standard and instead applied a Daubert analysis to the standard of
Hines, Nichole
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Comment: The Doctrine of Chances, Brides of the Bath and a Reply to Sean Sullivan [PDF]
, 2015 The ‘Doctrine of Chances’ is a doctrine of probability that purports to solve an apparent logical conundrum or contradiction in the law of Evidence. It is the author\u27s thesis in this article that the doctrine of chances—in any acceptable logical form ...
Rothstein, Paul F
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