Contingency tables with structural zeros |
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| Authors: | William B. Smith Amba R. Parsa |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Texas A&2. M University , College Station, Texas, 77843 |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, the method of Hocking and Oxspring (1971) to estimate multinomial probabilities when full and partial data are available for some cells is extended to estimate the cell probabilities of a contingency table with structural zeros. The estimates are maximum likelihood, and the process is sequential. The gain in precision is due to the use of partial data and the bias of the estimates is also investigated. |
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| Keywords: | Contingency tables structural zeros maximum likelihood estimates asymptotic covariance matrix bias |
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