In the early 20 th century, Guinness breweries in Dublin had a policy of hiring the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to improve their industrial processes. At the time, it was considered a ...

Hypothesis testing problems in which the null hypothesis is simple, the parameter space is finite dimensional and the supports of the probability measures are independent of the parameter are ...

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Post-hoc testing is carried out after a statistical analysis where you have performed multiple significance tests, ‘post-hoc’ coming from the Latin “after this”. Post-hoc analysis represents a way to ...

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 ...

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Exact statistics can be useful in situations where the asymptotic assumptions are not met, and so the asymptotic p-values are not close approximations for the true p-values. Standard asymptotic ...

When you specify the CHISQ option in the TABLES statement, PROC FREQ performs the following chi-square tests for each two-way table: Pearson chi-square, continuity-adjusted chi-square for 2 ×2 tables, ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 49, No. 3 (Dec., 1987), pp. 199-217 (19 pages) When a contingency table has many cells having very small frequencies, possibly ...