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Teaching an Application of Bayes' Rule for Legal Decision-Making: Measuring the Strength of Evidence
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Direct linkSatake, Eiki; Murray, Amy Vashlishan – Journal of Statistics Education, 2014
Although Bayesian methodology has become a powerful approach for describing uncertainty, it has largely been avoided in undergraduate statistics education. Here we demonstrate that one can present Bayes' Rule in the classroom through a hypothetical, yet realistic, legal scenario designed to spur the interests of students in introductory- and…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Statistics
