The ambiguity of the U.S. Supreme Court in Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins created differences in opinion across circuits that were to be resolved but were not in Adams v. Florida Power (2001).
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Fisher's exact, chi-square and Mantel-Haenszel are all test statistics related to contingency tables or combining contingency tables across time or business units routinely presented as prima facie of age bias and wide-spread disparate impact.
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In strict mathematical terms, the natural logarithm of the odds of discharge to retention, that is, ln{P(Y = 1) / [1 − P(Y = 1)]}, is used.
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Menard, S. (2002). Applied logistic regression analysis (2nd ed.; Sage University Paper Series: Qualitative Applications in the Social Sciences, #106). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. “It is important to understand that the probability, the odds, and the logit are three different ways to express exactly the same thing” (p. 13).
