ON UNIFORM GENERATION OF 2-WAY TABLES WITH FIXED MARGINS AND THE CONDITIONAL VOLUME TEST OF DIACONIS AND EFRON

Authors
HOLMES RB JONES LK
Citation
Rb. Holmes et Lk. Jones, ON UNIFORM GENERATION OF 2-WAY TABLES WITH FIXED MARGINS AND THE CONDITIONAL VOLUME TEST OF DIACONIS AND EFRON, Annals of statistics, 24(1), 1996, pp. 64-68
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Statistic & Probability","Statistic & Probability
Journal title
Annals of statistics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00905364
Volume
24
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
64 - 68
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-5364(1996)24:1<64:OUGO2T>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Two efficient Monte Carlo algorithms are proposed for uniformly genera ting two-way contingency tables with fixed margins. These permit some improvements on recent work of Diaconis, Efron and Gangolli, especiall y concerning estimates of the total number of such tables.