From what I've seen using Math and Statistics has been presented in a whole lot of documented court cases and was legally determined to be able to be used to prove something. Benford's law being the most common one, it was used to prove Enron was cooking the books.
Yes, this sort of expert testimony is used all the time in a variety of cases, from calculating the damages due to an injured person or the non-breaching party to a contract to valuing corporate shares and prosecuting financial fraud.
From what I've seen using Math and Statistics has been presented in a whole lot of documented court cases and was legally determined to be able to be used to prove something. Benford's law being the most common one, it was used to prove Enron was cooking the books.
Yes, this sort of expert testimony is used all the time in a variety of cases, from calculating the damages due to an injured person or the non-breaching party to a contract to valuing corporate shares and prosecuting financial fraud.