Browsing Law School by Subject "Probabilities"

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    • Law, Statistics, and the Reference Class Problem 
      Cheng, Edward K. (Columbia Law Review, 2009)
      Statistical data are powerful, if not crucial, pieces of evidence in the courtroom. Whether one is trying to demonstrate the rarity of a DNA profile, estimate the value of damaged property, or determine the likelihood that ...
    • Reconceptualizing the Burden of Proof 
      Cheng, Edward K. (Yale Law Journal, 2013)
      The preponderance standard is conventionally described as an absolute probability threshold of 0.5. This Essay argues that this absolute characterization of the burden of proof is wrong. Rather than focusing on an absolute ...
    • Simplicial Complexes Obtained from Qualitative Probability Orders 
      Edelman, Paul H.; Gvozdeva, Tatiana; Slinko, A.M. (Arkadii M.) (Journal of Discrete Mathematics, 2013)
      The goal of this paper is to introduce a new class of simplicial complexes that naturally generalize the threshold complexes. These will be derived from qualitative probability orders on subsets of a finite set that ...