Friday, September 5, 2008

Hypothesis testing in employment discrimination cases (part I)

Generally, in an employment discrimination lawsuit, the statistical expert will conduct statistical tests that address one or both of the following employment related questions or hypotheses:

(1) if there was no discrimination against the protected group members, what would be the probability of observing the employment related disparity by random chance alone?

(2) after accounting for relevant employment factors, does the individual’s protected class status remain a statistically important factor?

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