Improved Exact Inference about Conditional Association in Three-Way Contingency Tables
三维列联表条件关联的改进精确推断
We propose modified exact inferential methods for contingency tables. Ordinary “exact” inference is conservative, because of the discreteness. For estimating a common odds ratio in several 2 × 2 tables, two modifications of the ordinary “exact” confidence interval maintain at least a fixed confidence level but tend to be much narrower. One approach inverts results of a test with a modified P value utilizing the test statistic and table probabilities. The second approach…