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cochran-armitage trend test
Goes back to the Forties or Fifties. My copy or Statistical Methods in
Medical Research describes it, gives a justification, and cites:
Armitage (1955) "Tests for linear trends in proportions and
frequencies." Biometrics, 11, 375-386.
My copy of Snedecor and Cochran simply describes it as a linear
regression on proportions and cites Yates, Biometrika 32 (1948): 176
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David Winsemius
On Dec 21, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Paulo Barata wrote:
>
> To the R-help list,
>
> In the documentation of the prop.trend.test function in the
> stats package, no bibliography has been provided which
> would allow one to find out the theoretical basis of that
> function and/or details of its implementation.
>
> May I suggest that some bibliography be included, as it
> generally happens with other statistical functions.
>
> I currently use R 2.8.0 running on Windows XP.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paulo Barata
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