New Equivalence Tests for Approximate Independence in Contingency Tables

Vladimir Ostrovski
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Vladimir Ostrovski: Ampega Asset Management GmbH, Charles-de-Gaulle-Platz 1, 50679 Cologne, Germany

Stats, 2019, vol. 2, issue 2, 1-8

Abstract: We introduce new equivalence tests for approximate independence in two-way contingency tables. The critical values are calculated asymptotically. The finite sample performance of the tests is improved by means of the bootstrap. An estimator of boundary points is developed to make the bootstrap based tests statistically efficient and computationally feasible. We compare the performance of the proposed tests for different table sizes by simulation. Then we apply the tests to real data sets.

Keywords: testing; approximate independence; contingency tables; bootstrap; equivalence; minimum distance; boundary point estimator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C10 C11 C14 C15 C16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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