In: Statistics and Probability
Innocent until proven guilty? In Japanese criminal trials, about 95% of the defendants are found guilty. In the United States, about 60% of the defendants are found guilty in criminal trials. (Source: The Book of Risks, by Larry Laudan, John Wiley and Sons) Suppose you are a news reporter following five criminal trials. (For each answer, enter a number.)
(a)
If the trials were in Japan, what is the probability that all the defendants would be found guilty?
What is this probability if the trials were in the United States?
(b)
Of the five trials, what is the expected number of guilty verdicts in Japan?
What is the expected number in the United Sates?
What is the standard deviation in Japan?
What is the standard deviation in the United States?