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Appendix D - Glossary
Pages 96-98

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... Anecdotal evidence: Qualitative data regarding business owners' accounts of experiences with disparate treatment and other barriers to business success. Baseline Business Population: The underlying universe of business establishments used in an availability analysis.
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... For example, in business owner earnings regressions, business owner earnings is the dependent variable, and other variables, such as industry, geographic location, or age are the independent or explanatory variables. See also "Dependent variable," "Exogenous variable." ITD: Idaho Transportation Department.
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... t-test, t-statistic, t-distribution: Often employed in disparity studies to determine the statistical significance of a particular disparity statistic. A t-test is a statistical hypothesis test based on a test statistic whose sampling distribution is a t-distribution.
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