Assessing robustness of intrinsic tests of independence in Two-way contingency tables

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 487, 2009, Pages 1261-1271

  Casella, George ^a   Moreno, Elías ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Bayesian inference; Chi squared test; Monte Carlo integration; Monte Carlo method; Volume test

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349767230     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08106     Document Type: Article

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