This paper is the sixth in a series of statistics articles recently published by Australian Critical Care. In this paper we explore the most commonly used statistical tests to compare groups of data at the nominal level of measurement. The chosen statistical tests are the chi-square test, chi-square test for goodness of fit, chi-square test for independence, Fisher's exact test, McNemar's test ...

Applied researchers have employed chi-square tests for more than one hundred years. This paper addresses the question of how one should follow a statistically significant chi-square test result in order to determine the source of that result. Four approaches were evaluated: calculating residuals, comparing cells, ransacking, and partitioning. Data from two recent journal articles were used to i...

In this chapter, we consider some chi-square-type goodness-of-fit tests for right AQ1 censored samples, viz. the Nikulin–Rao–Robson (NRR) test and generalized Pearson–Fisher (GPF) test. We compare these tests in terms of power in the case of testing composite hypotheses by randomly censored and Type II censored samples. Various grouping methods are considered, including equifrequent grouping, g...

This paper extends, in an asymptotic sense, the strong and the weaker mean square error criteria and corresponding tests to linear models with non-spherical disturbances where the error covariance matrix is unknown but a consistent estimator for it is available. The mean square error tests of Toro-Vizcorrondo and Wallace (1968) and Wallace (1972) test for the superiority of restricted over unre...