Friday 25 March 2016

Statistics of coincidences: Ben Geen case revisited (ABC)


In November 2014 I reported on the case of nurse Ben Geen who was convicted in 2006 for murdering 2 patients and seriously harming 15 others. I had been asked to produce an expert report on the 'statistical coincidences' in the case for the Criminal Cases Review Board.

Now a 30-minute documentary on the case presented by Joel Werner is to be aired on Australia's national radio station ABC on 28 March. In the programme (which you can listen to in full from the links at the top of the ABC page) I present a lay summary of the statistical argument (from minutes 16:30 to 21:34).

Norman Fenton

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