An importance sampling algorithm for exact conditional tests in log-linear models

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 321-332

  Booth, James G ^a   Butler, Ronald W ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta method; Markov chain method; Monte Carlo error; Normal approximation; Ratio estimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000860417     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.2.321     Document Type: Article

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