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On Tests for Correlated Proportions in the Presence of Incomplete Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

D. V. Gokhale*
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside
B. W. Sirtonik
Affiliation:
Department of Marketing and Management Science, California State College, San Bernardino
*
Requests for reprints should be sent to D. V. Gokhale, Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA. 92621.

Abstract

This paper proposes test statistics based on the likelihood ratio principle for testing equality of proportions in correlated data with additional incomplete samples. Powers of these tests are compared through Monte Carlo simulation with those of tests proposed recently by Ekbohm (based on an unbiased estimator) and Campbell (based on a Pearson-Chi-squared type statistic). Even though tests based on the maximum likelihood principle are theoretically expected to be superior to others, at least asymptotically, results from our simulations show that the gain in power could only be slight.

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Notes And Comments
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 The Psychometric Society

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