Lucia's ENGLISH LINKS

Dutch News 2-4-2008 – Life-sentence nurse Lucia de B freed
New York Times 16-5-2007 – The Prosecutor's Fallacy
The Guardian 7-4-2007 – Lies, damned lies and statistics
"It is possible to be very unlucky indeed..."

Science news 16-11-2007 – Random Samples "A probable killer?"
"Is Lucia de Berk, a Dutch nurse, a serial killer or the victim of shoddy statistics?"
Nature 18-1-2007 – Statistics: "Conviction by numbers" – [PDF] – news feature by Mark Buchanan
Richard Gill: “It makes little sense to do formal hypothesis testing when the data themselves have suggested the hypothesis.”

Richard Gill & Piet Groeneboom 31-1-2009 "Elementary Statistics on Trial"
Richard Gill & Piet Groeneboom 20-8-2007 "One in nine nurses will go to jail"
Abstract: It has often been noticed that, in observing the number of incidents that nurses experience during their shifts, there is a large variation between nurses. We propose a simple statistical model to explain this phenomenon and apply this to the Lucia de Berk case.
Peter Grünwald heads the information-theoretic learning group at the CWI
29-10-2007: Member of the "committee of three" who advised the Board of Procurators to request a reopening of the case against Lucia de B.
Thomas Colignatus 9-8-2007 – Data selection and confounding... [PDF]
Evidence Seminar 20-3-2007 by Ton Derksen and Peter Grünwald at University College London

Statistician Richard Gill of Leiden University keeps an overview Lying Statistics Damn Nurse Lucia de B
Wiki of Lucia de Berk (The Hague, Holland, 22 September 1961)
The case of Lucia de B., Life sentence, Doubts: Chain-link proof, Statistical proof, The Diary, The Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) report, Posthumus II Commission

Website of the Dutch Public Prosecution
Who monitors the Public Prosecution Service? Nobody!