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Women employees bring a gender discrimination class action against their employer, citing the fact that their average salary is $2,000 less than that of men in the same division of the company. A labor economist, appearing for the women, testifies that the difference in averages between men and women is statistically significant. In another case, a commodities broker with discretionary authority over accounts F and G is accused by account F owners of siphoning off profitable trades to account G, in which the broker had an interest. An expert for the broker testifies that the lower rate of profitable trades in account F is not statistically significant.
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 Technical note: summing 3 df chi-squared across all 6 years yields 22.1 on 18 df. The probability of a chi-squared that small or smaller is P = 0.23.
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Finkelstein, M.O. (2009). Significance. In: Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b105519_4
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