Estimating a Common Relative Risk: Application in Equal Employment

DOI10.2307/2289122zbMath0612.62147OpenAlexW4232308994MaRDI QIDQ3753369

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

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