Some collapsibility results for n-dimensional contingency tables

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 557-576

  Vellaisamy, P ^a   Vijay, V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Collapsibility; Conditional independence; Contingency table; Log linear model; M bius inversion; Simpson's paradox; Strict collapsibility

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIUS INVERSION FORMULAS; COLLAPSIBILITY RESULTS; CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE; LOG LINEAR MODELS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONTINGENCY TABLES; SIMPSON PARADOX; STRICT COLLAPSIBILITY;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 34548580350     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-006-0058-4     Document Type: Article

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