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This Manual will assist Fed. judges in recognizing the characteristics and reasoning of "science" as it is relevant in litigation. This edition comes after recent decisions that expand the duties and responsibility of trial courts in cases involving scientific and technical evidence. It includes new chapters that respond to issues that have emerged since the manual's initial publication in 1994. Chapters: The Supreme Court's Trilogy on the Admissibility of Expert Testimony; Management of Expert Evidence; How Science Works; and Ref. Guides on Statistics; Multiple Regression; Survey Research; Estimation of Economic Losses in Damages; Epidemiology; Toxicology; Medical Testimony; DNA Evidence; and Engineering Practice and Methods.