General & Miscellaneous Philosophy, Major Branches of Philosophical Study, Courts & Trial Practice, Public Administration, Espionage

Evidence and Inference for the Intelligence Analyst

Name: Evidence and Inference for the Intelligence Analyst
Author: David A. Schum
ISBN: 9780819166470

by David A. Schum

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Overview

This is the companion volume to the book described above. Volume II contains supplementary material for Chapters 3 through 12 in Volume I. These supplements contain various formal, logical, or mathematical arguments in support of assertions made in the chapters in Volume I. The supplements also contain additional topical examples of evidentiary and inferential matters discussed in the chapter of Volume I; the examples in eight of these supplements are numerical in nature and are designed to illustrate the operations of the various formal systems of probability/inference under consideration.

About the Author, David A. Schum

David A. Schum is Professor of Information Technology and Operations Research/Applied Statistics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

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Michigan Law Review

Schum has concocted something new and important out of a large variety of disciplines. He has created, almost single-handedly, a new science of evidence and inference.