deliberate.civil {sate}

Deliberation function for civil trials (proposed)

Description

The deliberate function returns a jury verdict based on a simulation of deliberation as a tug-of-war between two verdict factions. The civil version of deliberate does not have presumption in favor of either party. Can be called directly, but is meant to be called many times to generate verdict probabilities based on p_votes and jury_n values.

Usage

deliberate.civil(p_votes, jury_n)

Arguments

p_votes

Initial number of votes for plaintiff.

jury_n

Size of the jury (i.e. 4, 6, 8, 12, or 16).

Value

Returns "P" (plaintiff verdict) or "D" (defendant verdict).

Examples

   library(sate)
   deliberate.civil(p_votes=8, jury_n=12)

   deliberate.civil(p_votes=5, jury_n=6)