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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence is a Bayesian analysis of the trial and post-trial evidence in the Sacco and Vanzetti case, based on subjectively determined probabilities and assumed relationships among evidential events. It applies the ideas of charting evidence and probabilistic assessment to this case. Modern computation methods applied to inference networks are used to show how the inferential force of evidence in a complicated case can be graded. The authors employ probabilistic assessment to obtain opinions about how influential each group of evidential items is in reaching a conclusion about the defendants' innocence or guilt. Twenty-eight charts show the.…

Kadane, Joseph B.; Schum, David A. A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence. New York: Wiley, 1996. xvi, 366 pp., illustrations. Original hardcover. Near fine. $50. * Contents. 1. Different Wine in an Old Bottle. 2. A Standpoint for Our Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence 3. Chains of Reasoning from a Mass of Evidence 4. Grading the Probative Force of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence 5. Probabilistic Analyses: Issues and Methods 6. Probabilistic Analyses: Judgments and Stories 7. Probabilistic Analyses of Evidence in Various Disciplines 8. Final Thoughts about Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Appendix A. Wigmore Evidence Charts and Key Lists for the Trial and Post-Trial Evidence Appendix B. Trial Witnesses List Appendix C. Probabilistic Story Ingredients in Words.…