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5 papers
There to care; not to kill: medical settings, statistics and wrongful convictions
Richard D. Gill
This paper discusses wrongful convictions in a medical setting, focusing on nurses. Common features are lack of strong direct evidence: the nurse was never seen doing anything wron…
Healthcare serial killer or coincidence? Statistical issues in investigation of suspected medical misconduct
P. J. Green, R. D. Gill, N. Mackenzie +2
Justice systems are sometimes called upon to evaluate cases in which health-care professionals are suspected of killing their patients illegally. These cases are difficult to evalu…
Calculating LRs for presence of body fluids from mRNA assay data in mixtures
R. J. F. Ypma, P. A. Maaskant-van Wijk, R. D. Gill +2
Messenger RNA (mRNA) profiling can identify body fluids present in a stain, yielding information on what activities could have taken place at a crime scene. To account for uncertai…
Statistical issues in Serial Killer Nurse cases
Richard D. Gill, Norman Fenton, David Lagnado
We study statistical aspects of the case of the British nurse Ben Geen, convicted of 2 counts of murder and 15 of grievous bodily harm following events at Horton General Hospital (…
Pitfalls of amateur regression: The Dutch New Herring controversies
Fengnan Gao, Richard D. Gill
Applying simple linear regression models, an economist analysed a published dataset from an influential annual ranking in 2016 and 2017 of consumer outlets for Dutch New Herring an…