Power comparison of two-sided exact tests for association in 2 × 2 contingency tables using standard, mid p, and randomized test versions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 3859-3871

  Lydersen, Stian ^a   Laake, Petter ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

2 2 table; Exact tests; Mid p value; p value; Power

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTINGENCY TABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0348149054     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1671     Document Type: Article

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