Testing the Difference of Two Binomial Proportions: Comparison of Continuity Corrections for Saddlepoint Approximation

DOI10.1080/03610920701875275MaRDI QIDQ3526075zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lu Xu, John Kolassa

Publication date 24 September 2008

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920701875275

zbMATH Keywords

continuity correctionslugannani and rice formulasaddlepoint approximationtype I error rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03)

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