The myth of continuity-corrected sample size formulae

Biometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-76

  Gordon, Ian ^a   Watson, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

2 x 2 table; Continuity; Proportions; Sample size

Indexed keywords

SAMPLING;

2 X 2 TABLE; CONTINUITY; DISCRETE DISTRIBUTION; FISHER EXACT TEST; INDEPENDENT SAMPLES; NORMAL APPROXIMATION; PROPORTION; SAMPLE SIZE DETERMINATION; SAMPLE SIZES; UPPER BOUND;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029962747     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533145     Document Type: Article

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