Sub-Regressions In Antitrust Class Cert. Can Be Unreliable

Law360, New York (December 17, 2014, 10:06 AM EST) -- Statistical analysis plays an important role in the litigation process, and in antitrust class actions in particular. Courts — judges, juries, attorneys and other participants — rely on experts to boil down sometimes complex statistical analysis into a form that can be understood by the nonstatistician. Most importantly, courts are gatekeepers to the reliability of the statistical analysis presented. Therefore, to protect the integrity of legal proceedings and the usefulness of statistical analysis as a tool in those proceedings, it is imperative that the community of statistical experts call out the misapplication and misinterpretation of statistical analysis....

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