Blue, J.
(2000),
Fair Selection of Jury Panels From Jury Pools, - 6569, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
(Accessed October 21, 2025)
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Fair Selection of Jury Panels From Jury Pools
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Abstract
A standard problem of courts at all levels is the selection of a panel of potential jurors from a jury pool, which is a list of people who are eligible to serve as jurors. The problem is to select N people out of the M possible people in a fair way. One definition of fair is that each of the M people has an equal chance to be selected for any jury pool. A much more rigorous definition is that each of the possible combinations of N people has an equal chance to be selected as the entire jury pool. A working computer program incorporating a fair algorithm for the problem stated above has been produced, together with a brief testing program. The properties of this algorithm are discussed, and an improved version of a program developed previously is presented.Citation
- 6569
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6569
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NIST Pubs
Keywords
chi-square test, jury selction, lagged-Fibonacci generator, Pseudo-Random Number, random numbers
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Created October 1, 2000, Updated October 16, 2008