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February 1996 On uniform generation of two-way tables with fixed margins and the conditional volume test of Diaconis and Efron
R. B. Holmes, L. K. Jones
Ann. Statist. 24(1): 64-68 (February 1996). DOI: 10.1214/aos/1033066199

Abstract

Two efficient Monte Carlo algorithms are proposed for uniformlygenerating two-way contingency tables with fixed margins. These permit some improvements on recent work of Diaconis, Efron and Gangolli, especially concerning estimates of the total number of such tables.

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R. B. Holmes. L. K. Jones. "On uniform generation of two-way tables with fixed margins and the conditional volume test of Diaconis and Efron." Ann. Statist. 24 (1) 64 - 68, February 1996. https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1033066199

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Published: February 1996
First available in Project Euclid: 26 September 2002

zbMATH: 0888.62060
MathSciNet: MR1389880
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aos/1033066199

Subjects:
Primary: 62G99 , 62P99

Keywords: conditional volume test , Fisher-Yates distribution , Monte Carlo algorithm , rejection algorithm , Two-way tables , uniform distribution

Rights: Copyright © 1996 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.24 • No. 1 • February 1996
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