Re: Fisher exact test with large N and rare events



John Uebersax :

Under *Fisher exact test* I found (Web) a software
(author: Oyvind Langsrud) providing:


For both 2x2 Tables
_____T1 = [2, 17 ; 60, 80900]
_____T2 = [60 , 80900 ; 2 , 17]

___p(right tail) = 0.00009´77984

Then you can estate (with high probability) that
____w1 = 2 / (17 + 2) = 0.1053
____w2 =60 / (60 + 80900) = 0.0007

______w1 > w2.

______licas (Luis A. Afonso)



I can state with probability one that 0.1053 > 0.0007. This inequality comes from simple arithmetic.

Jack
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