The misquantification of probative value

D H Kaye1, Jonathan J Koehler

  • 1College of Law, Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

Law and Human Behavior
|January 17, 2004
PubMed

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