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Operationalizing the Concept of Probability in Legal-Social Science Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Gudmund R. Iversen*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Statistics has been called the science of uncertainty. Central to this science is the concept of probability. Operationalizing probability, however, has provided statisticians with many difficulties over the years, and to this day no complete agreement has been reached on this extremely important issue.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1971 The Law and Society Association.

References

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