Re: st: fisher-exact test

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 06:12 AM 3/10/2006, Stefania Ottone wrote:
> Dear all,
> is it possible to apply the Fisher-exact test to an rxc contingency table
> (where both r and c are greater than 2)? Do you think a Kolmogorov-Smirnov
> test could be more suitable in case of a 3x2 table?
> thank you.
> stefania ottone
See the exact option on

help tabulate twoway

yes, Fisher exact works with r x c tables.  If you happen to have an 
old version of Stata, I remember the statistic had some speed and/or 
accuracy problems, but I believe those were all fixed by the time 
Stata 8.2 came out.


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