Asymptotics for a 2 × 2 table with fixed margins

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 809-829

  Kou, S G ^a   Ying, Z ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Empirical odds ratio; Generating function; Jacobi polynomials; Maximum likelihood estimator; Noncentral hypergeometric distribution; Poisson approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444460529     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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