Continuity corrected approximations for and 'exact' inference with Pearson's X2

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-78

  Mudholkar, Govind S ^a   Hutson, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency tables; Diagnostics; Fr chet class; Moment approximations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031537106     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00091-2     Document Type: Article

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