Recent advances in DNA testing have helped to confirm guilt or innocence in many well-publicized criminal cases.
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Recent advances in DNA testing have helped to confirm guilt or innocence in many well-publicized criminal cases. Let us consider the DNA test results to be the gold standard of guilt or innocence and a jury trial to be the test of a hypothesis. What types of errors are committed in the following two situations?
a. The jury convicts a person of murder who later is found to be innocent by DNA testing.
b. The jury exonerates a person who later is found to be guilty by DNA testing.
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Introductory Biostatistics For The Health Sciences
ISBN: 9780471411376
1st Edition
Authors: Michael R. Chernick, Robert H. Friis
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