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infra-marginality problem: a standalone construct

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Empirical legal studies

the flaw that outcome tests of discrimination compare average hit rates, which can mislead when risk distributions differ between groups at the decision margin.

In empirical legal studies, infra-marginality problem refers to the flaw that outcome tests of discrimination compare average hit rates, which can mislead when risk distributions differ between groups at the decision margin. This meaning comes from Simoiu (2017) in The Annals of Applied Statistics.[1]

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Simoiu, C., Corbett-Davies, S., & Goel, S. (2017). The problem of infra-marginality in outcome tests for discrimination. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 11(3), 1193-1216. https://doi.org/10.1214/17-aoas1058

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