As in many other areas of science, systems biology makes extensive use of statistical association and significance estimates in contingency tables, a type of categorical data analysis known in this ...

What is Fisher's exact test? Fisher’s exact test is a statistical hypothesis test used to assess the association between two binary variables in a contingency table and is particularly useful when ...

The focus of this tutorial is on “associations” between two categorical variables. The scenario we will examine is the following: Are managerial status and gender at the bank related? Naturally, we ...

A generalization of correspondence analysis to multivariate categorical data is proposed, where all two-way contingency tables of a set of categorical variables are simultaneously fitted by weighted ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 49, No. 3 (Dec., 1987), pp. 199-217 (19 pages) When a contingency table has many cells having very small frequencies, possibly ...