Comparing one racial category to a population

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Hi all,

A question came up for me during the recent Talking Data Equity with Dr. Lauren Arrington, Dr. Kelly Bower and Dr. Brianna Kramer: One of their top recommendations was to compare racial/ethnic subpopulations to the entire population rather than using another subpopulation (e.g., white) as a referent. I love this & always try to do it when I can, but I run into difficulties when trying to determine statistically significant differences between one category & the entire population. I was only ever taught to test for significance using t-tests & mutually exclusive categories. How do others go about doing this? Thanks!

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Hey @mcameron thank you so much for posting this here as well as asking it in the TDE chat. I am actively working on setting up an example to answer your question and I’ve been running it by a few of my statistics colleagues in the past day or two before I post it. Coming soon!

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