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Exercise 5 - Misuse of Statistics in the Courts

After Sally Clark was found guilty, the Royal Statistical Society issued a statement saying that there was "no statistical basis" for the expert's claim. They expressed concern at the "misuse of statistics in the courts". Eventually, Sally Clark was acquitted in June 2003.

In addition to misusing the multiplicative rule as we saw earlier, what else did Sir Meadow miss?

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