Teaching probability and statistics to Law students

Date:   Friday, May 25, 2007
Time:   15:30
Link:   http://www.ciress.unibo.it/files/Evidence.pdf
Location:   Sala seminari, Biblioteca di Economia Walter Bigiavi, via Belle Arti 33, Bologna, Italy
Contact Name:   Maria Carla Galavotti


1. Pitfalls of Statistical Evidence. 2. Conceptions of Probability. 3. The Mathematics of Pascalian Probability. 4. Probability and Statistics in Court.

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Speaker

Name:   Professor Philip  Dawid
Affiliation:   University College London
Homepage:   http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/%7Eucak06d/
Biography  

Philip Dawid is Professor of Statistics at Cambridge University, having been Pearson Professor of Statistics at University College London from 1989 to 2007. He is Chartered Statistician and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, which has awarded him Guy Medals in Bronze and Silver; elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; elected Member of the International Statistical Institute; and a Member of the Organising Committee for the Valencia International Meetings on Bayesian Statistics. He has served as Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B) and of Biometrika, and is currently an Editor of Bayesian Analysis. He was President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the year 2000.

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