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Barnard's Exact Test

Barnard's exact test is an unconditional exact hypothesis test for comparing two independent proportions in a 2×2 contingency table, proposed by George A. Barnard in 1945. Unlike Fisher's exact test, it does not condition on both margins being fixed, and is generally more powerful when column totals are not predetermined by the study design.

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Barnard's Unconditional Exact Test for 2×2 Tables
Taxonomic method record · hypothesis-test / statistics
  • Barnard, G. A. (1945). A new test for 2×2 tables. Nature, 156(3954), 177. · DOI 10.1038/156177a0
  • Suissa, S., & Shuster, J. J. (1985). Exact unconditional sample sizes for the 2×2 binomial trial. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 148(4), 317–327. · DOI 10.2307/2981892
  • Lydersen, S., Fagerland, M. W., & Laake, P. (2009). Recommended tests for association in 2×2 tables. Statistics in Medicine, 28(7), 1159–1175. · DOI 10.1002/sim.3531
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