Two-sided P-values from discrete asymmetric distributions based on uniformly most powerful unbiased tests

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 397-405

  Dunne, Adrian ^a   Pawitan, Yudi ^a   Doody, Liam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Fisher's exact test; Hypergeometric distribution; Sign test; Two sided P value; Uniformly most powerful unbiased test; Yates's correction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007231012     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2988542     Document Type: Article

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