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Power comparison of Rao′s score test, the Wald test and the likelihood ratio test in (2xc) contingency tables

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Krzysztof Moliński

Moliński, Krzysztof

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Skotarczak, Ewa

Dec 12, 2015

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Biometrical Letters

Volume 52 (2015): Issue 2 (December 2015)

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Published Online: Dec 12, 2015

Page range: 95 - 104

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bile-2015-0009

Keywords
power of a test, simulation studies, test of independence

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There are several statistics for testing hypotheses concerning the independence of the distributions represented by two rows in contingency tables. The most famous are Rao′s score, the Wald and the likelihood ratio tests. A comparison of the power of these tests indicates the Wald test as the most powerful.

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