The Effect of Positive Dependence on Chi-Squared Tests for Categorical Data
正依赖对分类数据卡方检验的影响
SUMMARY We introduce a general definition of positive dependence for finite-state processes, and show that if successive observations are positively dependent, all tests that are asymptotically equivalent to standard Pearson chi-squared tests have asymptotic null distributions stochastically larger than those obtained under the usual independence assumptions. Ignoring positive dependence therefore leads to too frequent rejection of null hypotheses. This qualitative…