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Background Material
for
Advanced Evidence Course
Professor Peter Tillers
Cardozo School of Law



Probability Studies & Exercises for Problems such as "Multiple SIDS Deaths & Murder": Dice & Similar Devices

Illustrations of the Workings of the Basic Product Rule (assuming independence):
1, 2, 6, or 9 dice; 1,10, 20, or 100 rolls

two dice; results

1 or 2 dice thrown up to 500x
Adding probabilities (dice examples):
fallacy of 100%
Relative frequency = probability?:
see left-hand side of chart
Standard and non-standard dice:
standard dice; charts illustrate distributions for different numbers of dice

http://www.dice.co.uk/fs_edu.htm
Non-standard non-Platonic solids but fair dice (isohedrons; symmetrical):
non-standard but fair
Loaded dice:
http://www.dice.co.uk/fs_other.htm
How fair are real fair dice?:
http://www.americanmusicscene.com/site/46828-loaded-dice.html
Coincidence(?) (bridge hands):
http://www.maa.org/features/mathchat/mathchat_9_7_00.html
Hypergeometric: lottery game:
http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/probstat/lotto.html




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