Statistical Evidence in Discrimination Cases

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 289-303

  Gastwirth, Joseph L ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Changepoints; Conditional tests; Discrimination; Law; Statistical evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039791131     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00063     Document Type: Article

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