A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence

by David A. Schum and Joseph B. Kadane

Book Overview

A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence is aBayesian analysis of the trial and post-trial evidence in the Saccoand Vanzetti case, based on subjectively determined probabilitiesand assumed relationships among evidential events. It applies theideas of charting evidence and probabilistic assessment to thiscase, which is perhaps the ranking cause celebre in all of Americanlegal history. Modern computation methods applied to inferencenetworks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471141828
• ISBN13: 9780471141822
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"