Nearly exact tests of conditional independence and marginal homogeneity for sparse contingency tables

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-104

  Kim, Donguk ^a   Agresti, Alan ^b  

^a Hanshin University   (South Korea)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cochran Mantel Haenszel test; Linear by linear association; Loglinear model; Monte Carlo; Ordinal variables; Score statistic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICS;

COCHRAN-MANTEL-HAENSZEL TEST; CONTINGENCY TABLES; LINEAR BY LINEAR ASSOCIATION; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MULTIVARIATE RESPONSE; ORDINAL VARIABLES; SCORE STATISTIC;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONTINGENCY TABLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 0031555796     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(96)00038-2     Document Type: Article

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