Estimating a Common Relative Risk: Application in Equal Employment

DOI10.2307/2289122MaRDI QIDQ3753369zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph L. Gastwirth, Samuel W. Greenhouse

Publication date 1987

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2289122

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimatorsbinomial modelhypergeometric distributionlarge sample theorycommon odds ratioMantel-Haenszelcombining independent teststests for homogeneityfair hiring practicesoverall test of equal hiring ratesrelative risk measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

Recommendations

• Methods for estimating relative risk in studies of common binary outcomes
• Estimation of Relative Risk Under Variable Multiple Matching
• Estimating restricted mean job tenures in semi-competing risk data compensating victims of discrimination
• Estimation of Relative Risk Under M to R Matching
• Estimates of relative risk
• Age- and time-varying proportional hazards models for employment discrimination

Cited in

(6)

• Statistical Issues Arising in Disparate Impact Cases and the Use of the Expectancy Curve in Assessing the Validity of Pre-Employment Tests
• Risk ratios and Scanlan's HRX
• A simulation study of estimators of a common odds ratio in several 2 × 2 tables
• A simple comparison of two sequences of probabilities
• A necessary and sufficient condition for the strong consistency of a family of estimators of the common odds ratio
• Combining Information from Similar Experiments: I. Statistical Issues

This page was built for publication: Estimating a Common Relative Risk: Application in Equal Employment

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3753369)