Inaccuracy of the X 2 Test of Goodness of Fit when Expected Frequenies are Small

DOI10.2307/2284509zbMath0286.62017OpenAlexW4232509203MaRDI QIDQ4773147

Leon A. Hyer, Merle W. Tate

Publication date: 1973

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2284509

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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