Exact Tests for Interaction in Several 2 × 2 Tables

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-224

  Hirji, Karim F ^a   Vollset, Stein E ^b   Reis, Isildinha M ^c   Afifi, Abdelmonem A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exact inference; Fast Fourier transform; Network algorithm; Polynomial multiplication algorithm; Test of homogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030305455     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1996.10474706     Document Type: Article

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