Analyzing bivariate continuous data grouped into categories defined by empirical quantiles of marginal distributions

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1054-1069

  Borkowf, Craig B ^a,d   Gail, Mitchell H ^a   Carroll, Raymond J ^b   Gill, Richard D ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Contingency table; Empirical bivariate quantile partitioned distribution; Kappa statistic; Quantile

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS;

ASYMPTOTIC THEORIES; BIVARIATE; CONTINGENCY TABLE; CONTINUOUS DATA; EMPIRICAL BIVARIATE QUANTILE-PARTITIONED DISTRIBUTION; KAPPA STATISTIC; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENTS OF; QUANTILE; TWO WAYS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

EID: 0030768657     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533563     Document Type: Article

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