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

doi:10.1214/aos/1033066199

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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

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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