Testing and viewing symmetry in contingency tables, with application to readers of fish ages

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 620-629

  Evans, Geoffrey T ^a   Hoenig, John M ^a,b  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowker's test; Interchangeability of subscripts; McNemar's test; Test of symmetry; Three way contingency table

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BOWKE TEST; CONTINGENCY TABLE; INTERCHANGEABILITY OF SUBSCRIPT; MCNEMAR'S TESTS; NEW APPROACHES; POWER; REGULAR HEXAGON; TEST OF SYMMETRY; THREE-WAY CONTINGENCY TABLE;

AGE ESTIMATION; CONTINGENCY TABLES; FISH; SYMMETRY;

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FISH; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031744450     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3109768     Document Type: Article

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