The term was coined in 1949 by Lee Loevinger in his article "Jurimetrics: The Next Step Forward".[1][3] Showing the influence of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Loevinger quoted[4] Holmes' celebrated phrase that:
"For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics."[5]
The first work on this topic is attributed to Nicolaus I Bernoulli in his doctoral dissertation De Usu Artis Conjectandi in Jure, written in 1709.
Relation to law and economics
The difference between jurimetrics and law and economics is that jurimetrics investigates legal questions from a probabilistic/statistical point of view, while law and economics addresses legal questions using standard microeconomic analysis. A synthesis of these fields is possible through the use of econometrics (statistics for economic analysis) and other quantitative methods to answer relevant legal matters. As an example, the Columbia University scholar Edgardo Buscaglia published several peer-reviewed articles by using a joint jurimetrics and law and economics approach.[6][7]
In 2018, California's legislature passed Senate Bill 826, which requires all publicly held corporations based in the state to have a minimum number of women on their board of directors.[37][38] Boards with five or fewer members must have at least two women, while boards with six or more members must have at least three women.
Using the binomial distribution, we may compute what the probability is of violating the rule laid out in Senate Bill 826 by the number of board members. The probability mass function for the binomial distribution is:where is the probability of getting successes in trials, and is the binomial coefficient. For this computation, is the probability that a person qualified for board service is female, is the number of female board members, and is the number of board seats. We will assume that .
Depending on the number of board members, we are trying compute the cumulative distribution function:With these formulas, we are able to compute the probability of violating Senate Bill 826 by chance:
Probability of Violation by Chance (# of board members)
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
0.50
0.31
0.19
0.34
0.23
0.14
0.09
0.05
0.03
0.02
As Ilya Somin points out,[37] a significant percentage of firms - without any history of sex discrimination - could be in violation of the law.
In more male-dominated industries, such as technology, there could be an even greater imbalance. Suppose that instead of parity in general, the probability that a person who is qualified for board service is female is 40%; this is likely to be a high estimate, given the predominance of males in the technology industry. Then the probability of violating Senate Bill 826 by chance may be recomputed as:
Probability of Violation by Chance (# of board members)
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
0.65
0.48
0.34
0.54
0.42
0.32
0.23
0.17
0.12
0.08
Screening of drug users, mass shooters, and terrorists
Suppose that there is some binary screening procedure for an action that identifies a person as testing positive or negative for the action. Bayes' theorem tells us that the conditional probability of taking action , given a positive test result, is:For any screening test, we must be cognizant of its sensitivity and specificity. The screening test has sensitivity and specificity . The sensitivity and specificity can be analyzed using concepts from the standard theory of statistical hypothesis testing:
Therefore, the form of Bayes' theorem that is pertinent to us is:Suppose that we have developed a test with sensitivity and specificity of 99%, which is likely to be higher than most real-world tests. We can examine several scenarios to see how well this hypothetical test works:
We screen welfare recipients for cocaine use. The base rate in the population is approximately 1.5%,[41] assuming no differences in use between welfare recipients and the general population.
We screen men for the possibility of committing mass shootings or terrorist attacks. The base rate is assumed to be 0.01%.
With these base rates and the hypothetical values of sensitivity and specificity, we may calculate the posterior probability that a positive result indicates the individual will actually engage in each of the actions:
Posterior Probabilities
Drug Use
Mass Shooting
0.6012
0.0098
Even with very high sensitivity and specificity, the screening tests only return posterior probabilities of 60.1% and 0.98% respectively for each action. Under more realistic circumstances, it is likely that screening would prove even less useful than under these hypothetical conditions. The problem with any screening procedure for rare events is that it is very likely to be too imprecise, which will identify too many people of being at risk of engaging in some undesirable action.
Bayes' theorem states that, for events and , the conditional probability of occurring, given that has occurred, is:Using the law of total probability, we may expand the denominator as:Then Bayes' theorem may be rewritten as:This may be simplified further by defining the priorodds of event occurring and the likelihood ratio as:Then the compact form of Bayes' theorem is:Different values of the posterior probability, based on the prior odds and likelihood ratio, are computed in the following table:
with Prior Odds and Likelihood Ratio
Likelihood Ratio
Prior Odds
1
2
3
4
5
10
15
20
25
50
0.01
0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
0.05
0.09
0.13
0.17
0.20
0.33
0.02
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.07
0.09
0.17
0.23
0.29
0.33
0.50
0.03
0.03
0.06
0.08
0.11
0.13
0.23
0.31
0.38
0.43
0.60
0.04
0.04
0.07
0.11
0.14
0.17
0.29
0.38
0.44
0.50
0.67
0.05
0.05
0.09
0.13
0.17
0.20
0.33
0.43
0.50
0.56
0.71
0.10
0.09
0.17
0.23
0.29
0.33
0.50
0.60
0.67
0.71
0.83
0.15
0.13
0.23
0.31
0.38
0.43
0.60
0.69
0.75
0.79
0.88
0.20
0.17
0.29
0.38
0.44
0.50
0.67
0.75
0.80
0.83
0.91
0.25
0.20
0.33
0.43
0.50
0.56
0.71
0.79
0.83
0.86
0.93
0.30
0.23
0.38
0.47
0.55
0.60
0.75
0.82
0.86
0.88
0.94
If we take to be some criminal behavior and a criminal complaint or accusation, Bayes' theorem allows us to determine the conditional probability of a crime being committed. More sophisticated analyses of evidence can be undertaken with the use of Bayesian networks.
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