Exact inference for categorical data: Recent advances and continuing controversies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 17-18, 2001, Pages 2709-2722

  Agresti, Alan ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

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ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035884457     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.738     Document Type: Article

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