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Section 2:
Judge and Jury
Step 2
Steps 3 - 4
Death Penalty Cases
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Step 3

Use the Chi squarestatistic obtained in step 2 above to look up in http://www.an.psu.edu/jxm57/irp/chisquar.html or http://bmj.com/collections/statsbk/apptabc.html the probability of observing by chance the difference between judge and jury trial win rates.

Step 4

What pattern(s) did you observe in which category of cases over what period of years? What are possible explanations for the pattern(s) you observed? Please submit a brief answer in the box below.

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