The principle of minimum discrimination information estimation is described and used to generate estimates for tests of hypotheses concerning various interactions and effects in the analysis of ...

Three methods of fitting log-linear models to multivariate contingency-table data with one dichotomous variable are discussed. Logit analysis is commonly used when a full contingency table of s ...

Different approaches exist for compensating for probabilistic linkage error when analysing a two-way contingency table for categorical data, where one variable is ...

PROC FREQ computes Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel statistics, controlling for Gender. For stratified 2×2 contingency tables, these statistics include estimates of the common relative risk and the Breslow-Day ...

Previous surveys, in 1978 to 1979 and in 1989, of Original Articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed increasing sophistication of statistical methods over time. 1,2 The use of ...

What is the chi-squared test? The chi-squared test, often written as χ 2 test, is a statistical hypothesis test used in the analysis of categorical variables to determine whether observed data are ...