Monte Carlo exact tests for square contingency tables

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 309-321

  Smith, Peter W F ^a   Forster, Jonathan J ^b   Mcdonald, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Estimated p values; Exact conditional tests; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Metropolis hastings algorithm; Square contingency table

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042261081     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2983177     Document Type: Article

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