Hypothesis Estimates and Acceptability Profiles for 2 × 2 Contingency Tables
二乘二列联表的假设估计与可接受性剖面
By estimating, rather than testing, hypotheses regarding the degree of dependence between the factors in 2 × 2 tables, the technical difficulties associated with small sample sizes are avoided. The estimators proposed here attempt to estimate 1 when the alternative hypothesis is true and 0 when the null hypothesis is true, subject to a bound on the squared error loss under the hypothesis. Such estimators provide guarded weights of evidence for the alternative hypothesis.…