Using bayesian p-values in a 2 × 2 table of matched pairs with incompletely classified data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 237-246

  Lin, Yan ^a,b   Lipsitz, Stuart ^c,f   Sinha, Debajyoti ^d   Gawande, Atul A ^c   Regenbogen, Scott E ^e   Greenberg, Caprice C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet prior; Exact McNemar test; Ignorable missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849083531     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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