On the Construction of Independence Counterexamples

American Statistician

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-16

  Johnson, Bruce R ^a   Tilly, Benjamin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary data; Correction for continuity; Ignorance zone; Inclusive exclusive convention; Noninformative prior; One sided significance test; Reference bayesian approach; Stopping rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030557193     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1996.10473535     Document Type: Article

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