A simple method of computing the sample size for Chi-square test for the equality of multinomial distributions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4903-4908

  Nisen, Jeffrey A ^a   Schwertman, Neil C ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

CHI-SQUARE TEST; MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 46549088000     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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