County judges try thousands of cases per year.In an overwhelming majority of cases disposed, the verdict stands as rendered.However, some cases are appealed, and of those appealed, some of the cases are reversed.Kristen DelGuzzi a newspaper reporter conducted a study of cases handled by County judges over a three-year period.Shown in the tables on pages 2 and 3 are the results for 214,047 cases handled (disposed) by 42 judges in Common Pleas Court, Domestic Relations Court and Municipal Court.Two of the judges (Dinkelacker and Hogan) did not serve in the same court for the entire three-year period.Use the data on pages 2 and 3 for this assignment;

The purpose of the newspaper's study was to evaluate the performance of the judges.Appeals often are the result of mistakes made by judges and the newspaper wanted to know which judges were doing a good job and which were making too many mistakes.You are called in to assist in the data analysis.Use your knowledge of probability and conditional probability to help with the ranking of the judges.You should also be able to analyze the likelihood of appeal and reversal for cases handled by different courts.

Managerial Report:

First, include your name as one of the judges in anyoneof the three courts; thenadd numbers of total cases disposed, appealed cases and reversed cases for yourself that are within the range of datacurrently stated.

rankings of the judges.

Include an analysis of the likelihood of Appealed cases and case Reversals in each of the three courts.

At a minimum, your report should include the following five (5) items in your report:

1.The probability of cases being appealed and reversed in the three differentcourts.

2.The probability of a case being appealed for eachjudge.

3.The probability of a case being reversed for eachjudge.

4.The probability of a reversalgivenan appeal for eachjudge.

5.Rank the judges within each court.State the criteria you used to rank the judges.

Common Pleas Court Domestic Relations Court Municipal Court Judge Total Cases Appealed Reversed Total Cases Appealed Reversed Total Cases Appealed Reversed Disposed Cases Cases Judge Disposed Cases Cases Judge Disposed Cases Cases Ann Marie Tracey 3141 127 13 Deborah Gaines 8795 48 9 Albert Mestemaker 4975 28 9 Arthur Ney Jr. 3219 125 14 Patrick Dinkelacker 6001 22 4 Beth Mattingly 2971 13 1 Fred Cartolano 3037 137 12 Sandra Danaher 9320 29 8 David Davis 7736 43 J. Howard Sundermann Jr. 955 60 10 Joseph Alizion 10702 42 David Stockdale 537 22 4 John O'Connor 2969 129 12 Penelope Cunningham 2725 7 1 Deidra Hair 2532 5 0 Norbert Nadel 2959 131 20 Ronald Panioto 12970 32 3 Dennis Helmick 7900 Patrick Dinkelacker 1258 44 8 Total 50521 180 30 Jack Rosen 7790 41 13 Ralph Winkler 3089 38 6 James Patrick Kenney 2798 6 Richard Niehaus 3373 137 16 John A. West 2797 4 Robert Kraft 3138 127 7 Joseph Luebbers 1698 25 Robert Ruehlman 3205 145 19 Karla Grady 5253 6 20 N - Thomas Crush 3372 119 10 Leslie Isaiah Gaines 5282 35 13 Thomas Nurre 3000 121 6 Mark Painter 2239 7 3 Timothy Hogan 1954 60 7 Mark Schweikert 5403 33 William Mathews 2264 91 18 Melba Marsh 8214 34 William Morrissey 3032 120 22 Quinn Blecker 799 41 Total 43965 1761 200 Thomas Hostetler 2103 11 Mike Allen 5149 43 4 Nadine Allen 8812 34 6 Timothy Black 7954 41 6 Timothy Hogan 2308 13 William Mallory 8277 38 11 Total 119561 552 114