Comparing Two Tests for Two Rates

Chunpeng Fan, Lin Wang and Lynn Wei

The American Statistician, 2017, vol. 71, issue 3, 275-281

Abstract: This article rigorously proves superiority of the proportion χ2 test to the logistic regression Wald test in terms of power when comparing two rates, despite their asymptotic equivalence under the null hypothesis that the two rates are equal.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1246263

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