Estimating the ratio of two marginal probabilities in a contingency table

E Peritz

Biometrics, Vol. 27, pp. 223-225, 1971


Abstract

A large-sample confidence interval for the ratio of two marginal probabilities in a contingency table is obtained, and also an unbiased estimator of one such probability when the other is known. A numerical example is given.

Keywords

Marginal ProbabilityContingency TableRatio