Methods for the Analysis of Contingency Tables with Large and Small Cell Counts
含大小单元格计数的列联表分析方法
The traditional practice has been to analyze contingency tables using asymptotic χ2 approximations for the tail probability of certain test statistics even when the approximation is known to be poor. For two-dimensional tables Pearson's X 2 statistic is most commonly used, whereas for multidimensional tables the likelihood ratio test is preferred because it makes it easy to test series of nested hypotheses. When asymptotic approximations are not adequate, exact tests are…