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. Small expected counts require care with this approximation. If categories are pooled, the fitted parameter and calibration should correspond to the pooled statistical model; simply pooling a statistic after fitting the unpooled model does not automatically give the usual chi-squared limit.

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Chi-squared comparison of a calibrated attenuation model 2026-10-18

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Suppose

N_{0}

is independently calibrated and counts

y_{i}

have predicted means

μ_{i} = t_{i} N_{0} e^{- b n_{i}}

under a specified candidate

b

. For independent sufficiently large Poisson counts, the Pearson chi-squared statistic is

Q = \sum_{i} (y_{i} - μ_{i})^{2} / μ_{i}

. With no parameters fitted to these test counts, its approximate reference chi-squared distribution has one degree of freedom per observation. Fitting a continuous

b

to the same data instead removes one residual degree of freedom. Replacing the denominators by observed counts is a common estimated-error approximation but can behave badly at small counts.

Calibration uncertainty

σ_{0}

also induces correlated prediction errors. First-order propagation of uncertainty gives

Cov (y_{i} - μ_{i}, y_{j} - μ_{j}) ≃ δ_{ij} μ_{i} + t_{i} t_{j} e^{- b (n_{i} + n_{j})} σ_{0}^{2} .

(1)

A generalized quadratic form uses this covariance matrix. For sparse counts use the Poisson deviance or the full count likelihood, with simulation if a calibrated goodness-of-fit probability is required. Choosing a range after inspecting residuals also affects formal test calibration; a physically specified signal-dominated range is preferable when applying a pure attenuation model.

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Contingency coefficient 2026-10-25

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The contingency coefficient transforms the Pearson chi-squared statistic as

C = X^{2} / (X^{2} + n)

. It is an unsigned measure of statistical association, not a p-value or a direction of an ordinal relationship. Writing

ϕ^{2} = X^{2} / n

gives

C = ϕ / 1 + ϕ^{2}

. Unlike Cramér's V, its attainable maximum depends on table dimensions, so comparisons between differently sized tables need care.

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Cramér's V 2026-10-25

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For an

r \times c

contingency table with

n

observations and positive row and column totals, Cramér's V rescales the Pearson chi-squared statistic to a dimensionless measure of statistical association. It lies between zero and one and is unchanged by reordering category labels. It therefore describes the magnitude of dependence, without an ordinal direction. A small p-value can accompany a small

V

in a large sample: evidence against independence and the magnitude of the departure answer different questions. The displayed quantity is the usual uncorrected sample measure.

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Exact conditional Pearson test for a binary contingency table 2026-10-25

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Consider independent binomial counts

X_{i} \sim Bin (n_{i}, p)

under the common-probability null hypothesis, with fixed positive row sizes

n_{i}

. Let

N = \sum_{i} n_{i}

,

K = \sum_{i} X_{i}

and assume

0 < K < N

. Conditional on

K

, the probability mass function is the displayed multivariate hypergeometric distribution: in the joint likelihood, the factor

p^{K} (1 - p)^{N - K}

is common to all admissible tables and cancels. The Vandermonde identity gives the denominator, so the conditional distribution is free of the unknown nuisance parameter

p

.

For a table

x

, its Pearson chi-squared statistic is

Q (x) = \sum_{i} \frac{( N x _{i} - n _{i} K ) ^{2}}{n _{i} K ( N - K )} .

(1)

An exact conditional p-value sums the displayed probabilities over all tables with the same margins and

Q (x) \geq Q (x_{obs})

. The ordering is by the Pearson chi-squared statistic, rather than by the probability of an individual table; different exact-test orderings can give different answers. Enumeration is practical when

K

and the number of rows are small. Monte Carlo tests can approximate the same tail by sampling tables with fixed margins.^[ref]

An exact arithmetic comparison is easy too. Let

M

be the least common multiple of the row sizes. Compare the integer

A (x) = \sum_{i} (N x_{i} - n_{i} K)^{2} \frac{M}{n _{i}},

(2)

since every table has the same positive denominator

M K (N - K)

. This includes boundary ties without a floating-point tolerance. Conditional p-values are discrete and can be conservative; “exact” concerns their null calibration, not equality of rejection probability with every chosen significance level.

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Generalized phi coefficient 2026-10-25

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For a contingency table with Pearson chi-squared statistic

X^{2}

and sample size

n > 0

, the nonnegative magnitude

ϕ = X^{2} / n

is sometimes reported as generalized phi. It does not encode an ordinal direction. In a two-row or two-column table it coincides with Cramér's V; in larger tables it can exceed one, so the normalization in Cramér's V matters. In a two-by-two table it is the absolute value of the Pearson correlation coefficient of binary category indicators; a signed binary phi requires a stated coding convention.

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Joint conditional independence test for stratified contingency tables 2026-10-25

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For

K

independent strata, each containing an

r \times c

contingency table, test independence of the two table variables within every stratum. Under adequate expected counts and the usual multinomial distribution sampling assumptions, each stratum's Pearson chi-squared statistic has asymptotic chi-squared distribution with

(r - 1) (c - 1)

statistical degrees of freedom. Their sum has asymptotic chi-squared distribution with

K (r - 1) (c - 1)

statistical degrees of freedom, by the additivity of independent chi-squared distributions. This is a test of conditional independence, not of equality of a common effect across strata; the latter needs an interaction contrast or another specified homogeneity test.

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Income band	$n$	Male agreement	Female agreement	Difference in percentage points	$X_{4}^{2}$	$p$	Cramér's V
Under 10k	117	38.64%	34.25%	4.39	3.433	0.4881	0.171
10k–20k	212	35.90%	35.07%	0.82	5.457	0.2435	0.160
20k–30k	245	52.17%	39.22%	12.96	5.893	0.2073	0.155
30k–40k	278	54.90%	37.50%	17.40	10.117	0.03851	0.191
40k–50k	178	54.74%	38.55%	16.18	6.687	0.1534	0.194
50k and above	1105	71.16%	50.21%	20.95	63.765	$4.68 \times 1 0^{- 13}$	0.240

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Under the null hypothesis of independence, the expected count in a cell is its row total times its column total divided by 748. The Pearson chi-squared statistic compares observed and expected counts throughThere are

(5 - 1) (2 - 1) = 4

statistical degrees of freedom, giving

p \approx 6.49 \times 1 0^{- 21}

. The minimum expected count is approximately 5.015, so the usual expected-count concern is much less acute here than in the income strata. The table gives strong evidence of a statistical association. The likelihood-ratio test of independence in a contingency table agrees: its statistic is approximately 81.361 on four statistical degrees of freedom, with a very small p-value. The displayed 0.000 is rounding, not a zero probability.

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Annual household income	Lowest trust	Highest trust	Difference in percentage points
Below £20,000	36.36%	89.60%	53.24
£20,000–£40,000	50.00%	93.10%	43.10
£40,000 and above	66.67%	91.14%	24.47

Income group	Enumerated tables	Exact conditional p-value
Lowest	507150	$7.6870 \times 1 0^{- 12}$
Middle	22379	$0.00059975$
Highest	2585	$0.085324$

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For independent Poisson counts, the log-likelihood at mean vector

μ

is

ℓ (μ) = \sum_{i} {y_{i} lo g μ_{i} - μ_{i} - lo g (y_{i}!)} .

(1)

The saturated model maximizes each cell separately at

μ_{i} = y_{i}

, including the boundary value zero. If

e_{i}

is the fitted mean under the log-linear regression, twice the saturated-minus-fitted log-likelihood is the full Poisson deviance

D = 2 \sum_{i} {y_{i} lo g \frac{y _{i}}{e _{i}} - y_{i} + e_{i}},

(2)

with

0 lo g (0/ e_{i}) = 0

understood by continuity. The fitted intercept has score function

\partial ℓ / \partial μ = \sum_{i} (y_{i} - e_{i})

, since differentiating the logarithmic mean with respect to that intercept gives one. Its maximum-likelihood equation therefore gives

\sum_{i} e_{i} = \sum_{i} y_{i}

. This is why Poisson deviance simplifies when an intercept is fitted:

D = 2 i \sum y_{i} lo g (y_{i} / e_{i}) .

(3)

Without the fitted unpenalized intercept, one cannot generally discard the two linear terms. The individual logarithmic terms in the simplified sum need not each be positive; nonnegativity belongs to the full deviance, or to the full cell contributions before cancellation.

For the approximation, write

y_{i} = e_{i} + r_{i}

and expand

lo g (1 + r_{i} / e_{i})

. When relative residuals are small,

2 {(e_{i} + r_{i}) lo g (1 + \frac{r _{i}}{e _{i}}) - r_{i}} = \frac{r _{i}^{2}}{e _{i}} - \frac{r _{i}^{3}}{3 e _{i}^{2}} + O (\frac{r _{i}^{4}}{e _{i}^{3}}) .

(4)

Consequently the quadratic Pearson approximation to the Poisson deviance is

D ≃ i \sum \frac{( y _{i} - e _{i} ) ^{2}}{e _{i}},

(5)

the Pearson chi-squared statistic for unit Poisson dispersion. Adequate expected counts and small relative residuals are what make the quadratic approximation useful; it is not an exact identity and can be poor for sparse cells, especially a zero count with positive fitted mean. Any further chi-squared goodness-of-fit reference needs its own large-count regularity assumptions.

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read.table(...,header=T) reads four grouped rows with column names. The displayed outcome counts give the observed risks

0.1519, 0.2145, 0.2611, 0.5111

in the indicated factor order. rbind in the first test pools over predisposition: the two rows represent no cannabis use and some use, with event/non-event counts

(341, 1775)

and

(82, 238)

. Thus the pooled risks are

341/2116 = 0.1612

and

82/320 = 0.2563

. This test concerns the marginal statistical association between use and outcome, not an association adjusted for predisposition.

Under independence, expected counts in the two-by-two contingency table are

E_{ij} = O_{i +} O_{+ j} / N

. The ordinary Pearson chi-squared statistic is

17.5183

. The printed

16.8618

is reproduced by the default two-by-two Yates continuity correction:

X_{Y}^{2} = \sum_{i, j} \frac{( ∣ O _{ij} - E _{ij} ∣ - 1/2 ) ^{2}}{E _{ij}} = 16.8618.

(1)

All absolute differences here exceed one half. Comparison with a chi-squared distribution on one statistical degree of freedom gives

p = 4.02 \times 1 0^{- 5}

. There is strong evidence of marginal association. The simplified output omits the usual continuity-correction wording, but its numerical value shows which statistic was used.

attach makes the data columns available by name, and tot=with+without obtains group sizes

1936, 275, 180, 45

. The grouped binomial regression fits

Y_{g} \sim Bin (n_{g}, π_{g})

, with response

Y_{g} / n_{g}

and prior weights

n_{g}

. These weights tell R the binomial denominator; treating the four proportions as four equally precise individual observations would be wrong. The default logit link is

η_{g} = lo g \frac{π _{g}}{1 - π _{g}}, π_{g} = \frac{e ^{η_{g}}}{1 + e ^{η_{g}}} .

(2)

Let

A

indicate some use and

B

indicate predisposition. The additive logistic regression specifies

η = a + b A + c B

. Its log-likelihood, including the binomial constants, is

ℓ = \sum_{g} [lo g (Y _{g} n _{g}) + Y_{g} η_{g} - n_{g} lo g (1 + e^{η_{g}})] .

(3)

Differentiation gives score equations

X^{T} (Y - nπ) = 0

and Fisher information matrix

X^{T} W X

, where

W_{gg} = n_{g} π_{g} (1 - π_{g})

. Fisher scoring solves these equations, and the inverse fitted Fisher information matrix gives the reported approximate coefficient variances. The number of scoring iterations records numerical convergence, not degrees of freedom or statistical evidence.

The intercept corresponds to no use and no predisposition and gives baseline fitted risk

logit^{- 1} (- 1.73881) = 0.1495

. The additive coefficients imply common adjusted odds ratios:

OR_{A ∣ B} = e^{0.53847} = 1.713, OR_{B ∣ A} = e^{0.82824} = 2.289.

(4)

They multiply the odds, not the risks. The Wald tests divide the estimates by their standard errors and use a standard normal distribution; both predictors have small two-sided p-values. Approximate

95%

confidence intervals for these odds ratios are

(1.296, 2.266)

and

(1.685, 3.110)

, obtained by exponentiating the log-scale intervals. The intercept test against zero asks whether the reference risk equals one half, and is not a test of either exposure association. The binomial dispersion is assumed to be one because

Var (Y_{g}) = n_{g} π_{g} (1 - π_{g})

; the output does not demonstrate independence or rule out extra-binomial variation.

There are four grouped probabilities and three fitted coefficients, leaving one residual degree of freedom. The fitted risks are approximately

(0.1495, 0.2314, 0.2869, 0.4080)

. The binomial deviance compares this fit with the four unrestricted observed proportions:

D = 2 \sum_{g} [Y_{g} lo g \frac{Y _{g}}{n _{g} π _{g}} + (n_{g} - Y_{g}) lo g \frac{n _{g} - Y _{g}}{n _{g} ( 1 - π _{g} )}] = 3.0733.

(5)

The deviance goodness-of-fit test against

χ_{1}^{2}

has p-value

0.0796

. The common-odds-ratio fit is not rejected at

5%

, although the doubly exposed group's observed risk exceeds its fitted risk appreciably and suggests possible interaction.

The second formula adds

δ A B

. Its four coefficients fit all four probabilities, making a saturated statistical model with zero grouped residual degrees of freedom. The near-zero deviance is roundoff from exact interpolation; it supplies no remaining grouped lack-of-fit test. Unlike Q1's unreplicated Gaussian fit, however, these grouped responses represent many independent Bernoulli trials, and their binomial variances are specified by their sizes and probabilities. Coefficient standard errors remain available from binomial information without estimating dispersion from the zero residual degrees of freedom.

Indeed, let

η_{ab} = lo g [Y_{ab} / (n_{ab} - Y_{ab})]

be the fitted cell logit link value. The saturated coefficients are

a = η_{00}, b = η_{10} - η_{00}, c = η_{01} - η_{00}, δ = η_{11} - η_{10} - η_{01} + η_{00} .

(6)

These calculations yield the printed estimates. The delta method gives

Var (η_{ab}) \approx 1/ Y_{ab} + 1/ (n_{ab} - Y_{ab})

, and independent groups make the variance of

δ

the sum of all eight reciprocal counts. Its square root is

0.37857

, reproducing the printed standard error.

The saturated logistic regression describes the conditional odds ratios as follows:

OR_{A ∣ B = 0} = e^{0.42235} = 1.526, OR_{A ∣ B = 1} = e^{0.42235 + 0.66230} = 2.958,

(7)

OR_{B ∣ A = 0} = e^{0.67989} = 1.974, OR_{B ∣ A = 1} = e^{0.67989 + 0.66230} = 3.827.

(8)

Thus the main coefficients now concern effects at the other factor's reference level. Logistic interaction as a ratio of odds ratios gives

e^{δ} = 1.939

, with approximate

95%

confidence interval

(0.923, 4.073)

. The interaction Wald test has

p = 0.0802

, while the nested likelihood-ratio test uses deviance difference

3.0733

on one statistical degree of freedom and has

p = 0.0796

. The data suggest a larger odds association in predisposed subjects, but do not establish this interaction at the conventional $5%$ level. This conclusion is specific to the odds scale; absolute-risk differences can vary even with no logit-scale interaction.

The Akaike information criterion is

- 2 ℓ + 2 k

. The additive fit has

k = 3

and AIC

31.766

; the interaction fit has

k = 4

and AIC

30.692

. The extra coefficient improves twice the log-likelihood by

3.0733

but incurs penalty

2

, so AIC falls by only

1.0733

. It weakly favors the larger fit rather than decisively establishing an interaction, and AIC is not a p-value.

The marginal odds ratio

1.793

and the fitted conditional odds ratios are different quantities. Predisposition is associated with both use frequency and outcome, so confounding is a substantive possibility; noncollapsibility of the odds ratio also means marginal and conditional odds ratios need not agree. This is an observational association analysis with only one adjustment factor. It does not by itself establish a causal effect, exclude other confounding, or validate the assumed independent binomial sampling.

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Let

ℓ_{sat}

denote the maximized log-likelihood in the saturated model, with one fitted mean per observation. With known dispersion, define the deviance of a fitted model as

D = 2 (ℓ_{sat} - ℓ_{fitted})

; for an exponential-dispersion convention that scales deviance by the dispersion

ϕ

, divide that scaled quantity by

ϕ

in the following test.

Let

D_{0}, D_{1}

be the fitted deviances under the null and full models. Their difference is the likelihood-ratio test statistic

D_{0} - D_{1} = 2 (ℓ (β) - ℓ (β_{0}, 0)) .

(1)

Under the regular identifiable interior null hypothesis, Wilks theorem gives the limiting

χ_{p - p_{0}}^{2}

distribution. Reject for an observed difference above its chosen upper-tail critical value. This concerns the difference of fitted model deviances, not simply the full-model deviance compared with zero.

For a Poisson regression, the means are

μ_{i} = e^{x_{i}^{T} β}

and

ℓ = \sum_{i} (y_{i} lo g μ_{i} - μ_{i} - lo g y_{i}!)

. Saturation sets

μ_{i} = y_{i}

, taking the limiting value at

y_{i} = 0

. Consequently the Poisson deviance is

D = 2 i \sum [y_{i} lo g \frac{y _{i}}{μ _{i}} - (y_{i} - μ_{i})],

(2)

with

0 lo g 0 = 0

. The intercept score implies

\sum_{i} (y_{i} - μ_{i}) = 0

at a finite fit, although retaining that term makes the individual deviance contributions clear.

For

y_{i} = μ_{i} + δ_{i}

with

∣ δ_{i} ∣/ μ_{i}

small, expand

(μ_{i} + δ_{i}) lo g (1 + δ_{i} / μ_{i}) - δ_{i}

. The linear term cancels and the result is

δ_{i}^{2} / (2 μ_{i}) + O (∣ δ_{i} ∣^{3} / μ_{i}^{2})

. Therefore

D ≃ \sum_{i} \frac{( y _{i} - μ _{i} ) ^{2}}{μ _{i}},

(3)

the Pearson chi-squared statistic. The approximation requires adequately large fitted counts and small relative residuals; it is not an identity for sparse observations.

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Assuming independent digits under Benford law, put

N = \sum_{i} y_{i}

and

p_{i} = lo g_{10} (1 + 1/ i)

. The count vector has a multinomial distribution, with expected counts

E_{i} = N p_{i}

. Suitable predictive discrepancy statistics include the Pearson chi-squared statistic and multinomial deviance:

T_{P} = i = 1 \sum 9 \frac{( y _{i} - E _{i} ) ^{2}}{E _{i}}, T_{G} = 2 i : y_{i} > 0 \sum y_{i} lo g (y_{i} / E_{i}) .

(1)

The zero-count terms of

T_{G}

have limiting value zero. A Monte Carlo method gives a direct null comparison even when expected counts are small.

For example, an original R implementation is:

benford_check <- function(y, B = 9999L) {
  p <- log10(1 + 1/(1:9))
  n <- sum(y)
  expected <- n*p
  observed <- sum((y - expected)^2/expected)
  replicas <- rmultinom(B, size = n, prob = p)
  simulated <- colSums((replicas - expected)^2/expected)
  (1 + sum(simulated >= observed))/(B + 1)
}

Each column returned by rmultinom is a replicated count vector. R recycles the nine expected counts down each column. The add-one ratio is a Monte Carlo test estimate. In WinBUGS, alternatively generate a replicated dmulti vector using fixed

p_{i}, N

, compute its discrepancy and monitor exceedance of the observed value. The null does not estimate unknown digit probabilities. Dependence or selection in the accounts would require an appropriate simulation model.

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For observed proportions

y_{i}

and fitted proportions

p_{i}

, the binomial deviance is

D = 2 \sum_{i} m_{i} [y_{i} lo g \frac{y _{i}}{p _{i}} + (1 - y_{i}) lo g \frac{1 - y _{i}}{1 - p _{i}}] .

(1)

A second-order Taylor expansion around

y_{i} = p_{i}

gives

D \approx \sum_{i} \frac{m _{i} ( y _{i} - p _{i} ) ^{2}}{p _{i} ( 1 - p _{i} )},

(2)

the generalized Pearson chi-squared statistic. Under the fitted binomial model this is approximately

χ_{4 - 3}^{2} = χ_{1}^{2}

. The observed deviance is

1.6102

, whose upper-tail probability is about

0.20

. Since this exceeds

0.05

, there is no significant evidence of overdispersion.

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The researcher computed the Pearson chi-squared statistic

X_{P}^{2} = \sum_{i} \frac{( Y _{i} - μ _{i} ) ^{2}}{μ _{i}}

(1)

and compared it with a

χ_{1305}^{2}

distribution, using

1308 - 3 = 1305

residual degrees of freedom. Under an adequate large-sample Poisson regression,

X_{P}^{2}

should be roughly the residual degrees of freedom. The reported tail probability rounds numerically to zero and gives strong evidence of overdispersion.

Possible causes include unobserved heterogeneity or omitted covariates, dependence among respondents, excess zeros, or an incorrect mean function. The conclusion that the Poisson variance assumption fails is well supported, although this test alone does not identify the cause or establish that the Quasi-Poisson regression variance

Var (Y_{i}) = ϕ μ_{i}

is correct.

The reported Pearson dispersion estimator is

ϕ = X_{P}^{2} /1305 = 1.719346

, so

X_{P}^{2} = 1305 (1.719346) = 2243.75

(2)

up to rounding.

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