The Rules of Evidence

question 12

Multiple Choice

The rules of evidence

• A)determine what information will be available to the judge or jury at trial.
• B)dictate who can be selected for jury duty
• C)specify the punishment for crimes.
• D)require that all defendants have access to habeas corpus.

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Definitions:

Mean Absolute Deviation

A measure of dispersion in a data set, calculated as the average of the absolute differences between each value and the mean.

Forecast

A prediction or estimate of future events or trends, particularly in weather, economics, or business.

Error

A mistake in coding, logic, calculation, or the understanding of a system that leads to unexpected and usually undesirable outcomes.

Exponential Smoothing

Exponential smoothing is a time series forecasting method for univariate data that can be used to predict short-term trends by applying smoothing constants to past observations.