More efficient unconditional tests for exchangeable binary data with equal cluster sizes

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 644-649

  Shan, Guogen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated binary data; Exact test; Exchangeability; Likelihood ratio test; Unconditional test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875090205     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2012.11.014     Document Type: Article

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