Some association measures and their collapsibility

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1165-1183

  Xie, Xianchao ^a   Ma, Zongming ^b   Geng, Zhi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association measure; Collapsibility; Yule Simpson paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349118521     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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