Statistical Approaches for Assessing Disparate Impact in Fair Housing Cases by Dennis J. Aigner, Marco del Ángel, Joel Wiles

“…AbstractThe measurement of the disparate impact of a particular de facto discriminatory policy on a minority or otherwise legally protected group has been of importance since passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When the data available for the measurement of disparate impact, as embodied in the so-called “disparity ratio,” come from samples, a statistical approach naturally suggests itself. …”
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