Organizations selecting people: How the process could be made fairer by the appropriate use of lotteries

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 291-321

  Boyle, Conall ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Fairness; Lottery; Organizational selection processes; Random selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347802105     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00133     Document Type: Article

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