Conviction by numbers: Grünwald and Gill criticize statistics Lucia de B in Nature

Peter Grünwald of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Richard Gill of the Universiteit Leiden criticize the statistics used in the trial of nurse and alleged 'serial killer' Lucia de B. The researchers are being cited in Nature, vol. 445, page 254-255, of 18 January 2007 in a news feature about the role of statistics in cases such as Lucia de B and Sally Clark.

Publication date
19 Jan 2007

Peter Grünwald of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Richard Gill of the Universiteit Leiden criticize the statistics used in the trial of nurse and alleged 'serial killer' Lucia de B. The researchers are being cited in Nature, vol. 445, page 254-255, of 18 January 2007 in a news feature about the role of statistics in cases such as Lucia de B and Sally Clark.

More information can be found on Peter Grünwald's homepage, an article in de Volkskrant (19 januari 2007, Dutch), the article in Vrij Nederland (9 december 2006, Dutch) or the Nature article (only for subscribers)