Peng Yu wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM, RICHARD M. HEIBERGER <r...@temple.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
Can somebody point me a book on Fisher's exact test? I looked a few
webpages. But the descriptions on the webpages are not very complete.
Is there a book on that covers all the aspect of Fisher's exact test
that is implemented in R?
Section 15.2 of my book (Statistical Analysis and Data Display, with
Burt Holland and published by Springer)
shows a detailed example.
It doesn't mention odd ratio.
The general idea of basing the inference on the noncentral
hypergeometric distribution is something I have first seen in
Breslow&Day's famous 1980 book on case-control studies, including the
fact that the conditional MLE differs from the ordinary OR. (I'm sure
there's an earlier reference, but I happened to be a grad student when
that book came out...)
The rest of what R does is "carbon copied" from similar procedures for
the binomial distribution. I wouldn't know what kind of book to look for
for that sort of minutiae. Alan Agresti is a possible source.
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