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Fisher Exact test #17

Open infiro opened 12 years ago

infiro commented 12 years ago

After reading some article about Fisher Exact test , I think there are some controversy and limitation in when we want to use it. They say for a large sample (N>30) and each cell is more than 5, it is better to use Chi-squared test instead

Other article said when we should use Fisher Exact http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/statfishers.html

to be continue...

eggnet commented 12 years ago

be careful Triet, the reason why you might want to use Chi-square over Fisher Exact are due to the computational costs of the Fisher Exact tests compared to the increased accuracy at approximating the result of the fisher exact test using chi square