Models are developed for the analysis of contingency table data with supplemental marginal totals. The method of maximum likelihood is used to estimate the parameters in the models, and the expected ...

The test of independence of row and column variables in a (J × K) contingency table is a widely used statistical test in many areas of application. For complex survey samples, use of the standard ...

What is Fisher's exact test? Fisher’s exact test is a statistical hypothesis test used to assess the association between two binary variables in a contingency table and is particularly useful when ...

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 ...