Verbesserung des nicht-randomisierten exakten Testes von R. A. Fisher. (Improvement of the nonrandomized exact test of R. A. Fisher) (Q1096282)

The so-called exact test of R. A. Fisher for comparing two probabilities \(p_ 1\) and \(p_ 2\) in a fourfold-table with small cell frequencies is known as a UMPU-test. But in practice the test is used in a nonrandomized, often tabulated version. Given a certain level of significance \(\alpha\) it is shown: the critical region of this nonrandomized test, referred to as ``Fisher 1'', can be enlarged considerably. For instance for all sample-size-sums up to 20 and \(\alpha =0.01\) the total number of points in the critical regions of ``Fisher 1'' is 552 whereas the analogous number of the new version ``Fisher 2'' is 788. The size of tables for ``Fisher 2'' can be reduced considerably because the main parts of the critical regions can be described by the aid of some chi-square-test versions. In particular Yates' continuity-correction turns out to be always conservative in the above mentioned region relative to ``Fisher 2'' whereas this is not strictly true relative to ``Fisher 1''.