Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-b6zl4 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-08T10:09:51.583Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Fisher-Yates Exact Test and Unequal Sample Sizes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Edgar M. Johnson
Edgar M. Johnson*
Affiliation:
U. S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A computational short cut suggested by Feldman and Klinger for the one-sided Fisher-Yates exact test is clarified and is extended to the calculation of probability values for certain two-sided tests when sample sizes are unequal.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 1972 , pp. 103 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © 1972 The Psychometric Society

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

Now at the U.S. Army Behavior and Systems Research Laboratory, 1300 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22209

References

Feldman, S. E. & Klinger, E. Short cut calculation of the Fisher-Yates “exact test.”. Psychometrika, 1963, 28, 289–291CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Finney, D. U. The Fisher-Yates test of significance in 2 × 2 contingency tables. Biometrika, 1948, 35, 145–156Google Scholar
Hays, W. L. Statistics for psychologists, 1963, New York: Holt, Rinehart and WinstonGoogle Scholar
Siegel, S. Nonparametric statistics, 1956, New York: McGraw-HillGoogle Scholar