[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Bruce Weir's report on the OJ Simpson case

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Mike Miller wrote:

> Bruce Weir worked for the prosecution on the OJ Simpson.  Weir is a 
> great statistical geneticist - world famous and highly trusted. 
> Unfortunately, he made an error in one of his computations!  This can 
> happen to anyone, obviously, and it happened to him and became, 
> probably, the most embarrassing thing in his professional history.  So 
> the defense needed expert witnesses to carefully scrutinize Weir's 
> claims.  That's how they found the mistake.  This was discussed by Weir 
> in this paper:
>
> Weir, B.S. 1995. DNA statistics in the Simpson matter. Nature Genetics, 
> 11:365-368.  (I'm trying to get the PDF but it isn't easy.)

I finally got it:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/journals/natgen/199512_Weir_OJ_Simpson_matter.pdf


> Here is some of the transcript:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/trial/jun/


Mike

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