Pearson's X 2 and the Loglikelihood Ratio Statistic G 2 : A Comparative Review

DOI10.2307/1403582zbMath0707.62105OpenAlexW24143670MaRDI QIDQ3489133

Timothy R. C. Read, Noel Cressie

Publication date: 1989

Published in: International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1403582

zbMATH Keywords

Akaike's information criterionconditional testsFreeman-Tukey statisticpower-divergence statisticgoodness-of-fit statisticsparse multinomialsChernoff-Lehmann statisticdata-dependent cellsexact multinomial testRao- Robson statisticserially dependent datasmall-sample studies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15)

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