Leiser, David; Schatzberg, Dov-Ron - In: Judgment and Decision Making 3 (2008) 8, pp. 667-678
Professional judges in traffic courts sentence many hundreds of offenders per year. Using 639 case files from archives, we compared the Matching Heuristic (MH) to compensatory, weighing algorithms (WM). We modeled and cross validated the models on different subsets of the data, and took several...