Rare Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation Statistics 1986 D. H. Kaye

Description: about the book... Helping expert witnesses and consultants fulfill their professional responsibility by choosing the best statistical method for specific legal situations, this valuable reference surveys the most common methods already in usedescribes their flaws and problems, anticipates significant new difficulties not previously identified, and supports the development and application of more refined techniques suited to the phenomena of discrimination. Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation considers the legal theories that underlie the collection and analysis of data for courtroom use... discusses essential statistical techniques. such as the odds ratio, Mantel-Haenszel test, multiple linear regression analyses, competing psychometric concepts of fairness, and more... outlines means of improving statistical pre- sentations in court by more sophisticated data analysis techniques... and brings together materials and references from law, statistics, and psychology in a unique synthesis. Introducing statisticians and social scientists to the legal concepts and methodological issues. necessary for proving or rebutting claims of discrimination with statistical evidence, Statisti- cal Methods in Discrimination Litigation is an important reference for applied statisticians; economists; psychologists; sociologists; attomeys and judges involved in discrimination liti- gation as well as experts who consult or testify in discrimination cases; advanced undergraduate statistics courses; and law school and graduate economics seminars on discrimination. about the editors... D. H. KAYE is Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology and Pro- fessor of Law at Arizona State University in Tempe. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton in England, and an Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in Washington, D.C. The author or coauthor of many journal articles and text chapters on the legal applications of probability and statistics, Professor Kaye is also the author of Chapters 16 through 20 in McCormick on Evidence, 3rd edition, on the rele- vance of general and scientific evidence. He is a member of the American Bar Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Statistical Associa- tion. Professor Kaye received the S.Bdegree (1968) in physics from the Massachusetts Insti- tute of TechnologyM.Adegree (1969) in astronomy from Harvard University, and J.D. degree (1972) from Yale Law School. MIKEL AICKIN is Director of Statistical Consulting Services, a private consulting firm in Tempe, Arizona. He has held academic positions in the departments of mathematics at the University of Kansas and Arizona State UniversityThe author of a monograph on discrete data analysis, he has made contributions to the theory of multiple testing and the allocation of treatments in clinical trials, in addition to coauthored works in applied biostatistics and the application of probability to paternity testing. A member of the American Statistical Association, Bio- metric Society, Society for Clinical Trials and Professional Software Programmers Association, he received the B.Scdegree (1966) in mathematics from the University of Washington, and Ph.Ddegree (1976) in biomathematics from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 0-8247-7514-7 marcel dekker, inc./new york basel

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