A comparison of tests for trend

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 943-963

  Hirji, Karim F ^a   Tang, Man Lai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cochran Armitage test; Conditional test; Dose response data; Exact power; Exact test; Mid p test; Score test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001593846     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832137     Document Type: Review

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