Improved p-Value Tests for Comparing Two Independent Binomial Proportions

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-91

  Lin, Che Yang ^a   Yang, Ming Chung ^b  

^a YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Binomial proportions; Boschloo's test; Confidence interval p value; Fisher's p value; Mid p value; p value test

Indexed keywords

BINS;

BINOMIAL PROPORTIONS; EXACT TESTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; P-VALUE TESTS; P-VALUES; REAL CASE; SAMPLE SIZES; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS;

TESTING;

EID: 55449086275     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610910802417812     Document Type: Article

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