When government agents are sent as actors into a bank to test whether loans are more likely to be granted to whites than blacks they are using a statistical technique called

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The technique described is referred to as auditing, which is a statistical tool used to test for racial or other forms of discrimination in lending practices. Regression is a separate statistical tool used to analyze the relationship between variables, standard deviation measures variability in data, and quadratification is not a recognized statistical term.

When Government Agents Are Sent as Actors into a Bank