U.S. Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Date of this Version
March 1990
Abstract
Rice (1988a) presents an interesting test for analyzing 2 X 2 contingency tables in the smaller sample size situations. His motivation was to provide an alternative to Fisher's "exact test" and his rationale was based on the application of a prior distribution to the probability of a success, 0, under the null hypothesis. We would like to briefly comment on these aspects of his paper and also discuss another alternative that was proposed a number of years ago.
Comments
Published by Biornetricsm, March 1990.