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Note on the “Correction for Continuity” in Testing the Significance of the Difference between Correlated Proportions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Allen L. Edwards
Allen L. Edwards*
Affiliation:
The University of Washington
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Abstract

Methods of correcting for continuity in tests of significance of the difference between correlated proportions are presented. These corrections should increase the range of usefulness of the formulas developed by McNemar (1).

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , September 1948 , pp. 185 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © 1948 The Psychometric Society

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References

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