TY - JOUR
T1 - Some reasons for not using the Yates continuity correction on 2×2 contingency tables
AU - Conover, W. J.
N1 - Funding Information:
* W.J. Conover is professor of mathematics and statistics, Mathematics Depart ment. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Tex. 79409. This research WBB supported by a Public Health Service Research Career Development Award K4-GM-42, 351, from the Institute of General Medical Sciencea.
Funding Information:
Biostatistica, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514. C. Frank Starmer is recipient of Researoh Career Development Award l-K4-HL-70, 102, from the U.S. Publio Health Service.
PY - 1974/6
Y1 - 1974/6
N2 - In a contingency table with fixed marginal totals, and with row totals or column totals equal to each other, the Yates correction and the Kendall-Stuart correction for continuity improve estimates of the unknown probabilities. Otherwise only the Kendall-Stuart correction may be relied on to improve estimates over the chi-square approximation to the uncorrected statistic. If some marginal totals are random, the Yates corrected statistic provides a test different than the test which uses the uncorrected statistic.
AB - In a contingency table with fixed marginal totals, and with row totals or column totals equal to each other, the Yates correction and the Kendall-Stuart correction for continuity improve estimates of the unknown probabilities. Otherwise only the Kendall-Stuart correction may be relied on to improve estimates over the chi-square approximation to the uncorrected statistic. If some marginal totals are random, the Yates corrected statistic provides a test different than the test which uses the uncorrected statistic.
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U2 - 10.1080/01621459.1974.10482957
DO - 10.1080/01621459.1974.10482957
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84950616612
SN - 0162-1459
VL - 69
SP - 374
EP - 376
JO - Journal of the American Statistical Association
JF - Journal of the American Statistical Association
IS - 346
ER -