An ordering of dependence for contingency tables |
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Authors: | Harry Joe |
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Affiliation: | Department of Statistics University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1W5, Canada |
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Abstract: | A majorization ordering is defined on matrices with the same row and column sums. This ordering is used as an ordering of dependence for contingency tables. Results are derived for maximal and minimal matrices with respect to the majorization ordering. This theory can be used to maximize and minimize Schur concave functions defined over matrices, when there are row and column sum constraints; in this paper, it is applied to the algorithm of Mehta and Patel (1983) for finding the P-value of Fisher's exact test. |
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