Calibrating Legal Judgments

Epistemology of Legal Judgments

Parental Alienation Syndrome in Italian legal judgments: an exploratory study.

The present study highlights the characteristics of separated families in Italy for whom Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) has been diagnosed during court custody evaluations. The study analyzed the psychological reports of 12 court-appointed expert evaluations of families for whom PAS had been diagnosed. Twelve evaluations that did not receive the PAS diagnosis served as a control group. A sp...

Calibrating Prediction Regions

Suppose the variable X to be predicted and the learning sample Y" that was observed have a joint distribution, which depends on an unknown parameter 0. The parameter 0 can be finite or infinite dimensional. A prediction region Dn for X is a random set, depending on Yn, that contains X with prescribed probability a. This paper studies methods for controlling simultaneously the conditional covera...

Calibrating the calibrators.

Serial measures of lung function are essential for the long term monitoring of chronic diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pulmonary fibrosis where the main aim is to limit disease progression. Measures of forced expiratory volume in one second (FEVI) and forced vital capacity (FVC) are generally the most reproducible and therefore suitable for long term disease mo...

PhreMology: calibrating M-branes

The relevance of calibrations, and ‘generalized’ calibrations, to supersymmetric M-brane configurations, and their associated field theories, is reviewed, with emphasis on applications to domain walls and domain wall junctions of D=4 N=1 supersymmetric field theories. To appear in the proceedings of ‘Strings 99’. Minimal surfaces have long been an active area of mathematics. With the advent of ...