On uniform generation of two-way tables with fixed margins and the conditional volume test of Diaconis and Efron

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 64-68

  Holmes, R B ^a   Jones, L K ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional volume test; Fisher Yates distribution; Monte Carlo algorithm; Rejection algorithm; Two way tables; Uniform distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030548463     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1033066199     Document Type: Article

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