There is a legitimate need to compensate homeowners when builders breach their contract to provide safe, healthy, and sound houses and condominiums.
Nevertheless, plaintiffs’ attorneys often err by using biased sampling techniques when they extrapolate damages from known defects in selected properties to an entire development.
Dr. Carroll has testified for defendants in numerous construction defect cases about the distortions that inappropriate statistical inference can generate.
He also stands ready to assist plaintiffs’ attorneys in the appropriate procedures of sample selection and defect extrapolation.
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