A cautionary note on exact unconditional inference for a difference between two independent binomial proportions

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 441-450

  Mehrotra, Devan V ^a   Chan, Ivan S F ^a   Berger, Roger L ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 2 contingency table; Berger and Boos confidence interval search; Boschloo's test; Conditional test; Discreteness; Fisher's exact test; Score test

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS;

2 × 2 CONTINGENCY TABLE; BERGER AND BOO CONFIDENCE INTERVAL SEARCH; BOSCHLOO TEST; CONDITIONAL TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DISCRETENESS; FISHER EXACT TEST; SCORE TEST; TEST STATISTICS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINGENCY TABLE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HYPOTHESIS; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0038544636     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1541-0420.00051     Document Type: Review

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