A new exact and more powerful unconditional test of no treatment effect from binary matched pairs

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 716-723

  Lloyd, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlated proportions; Discordant pairs; Exact test; Maximized P value; McNemar's test; Nuisance parameters

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED PROPORTION; DISCORDANT PAIR; EXACT TESTS; MAXIMIZED P-VALUE; MCNEMAR'S TESTS; NUISANCE PARAMETER; P-VALUES; PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS; TREATMENT EFFECTS; UNCONDITIONAL TESTS;

BIOMETRICS;

PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MCNEMAR TEST; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48249111577     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00936.x     Document Type: Article

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