common and potentially deleterious rare variation in this pathway would be associated with severe asthma based on SARP cluster designation. Methods: To evaluate common variants (minor allele frequency or MAF .5%), 419 SARP non-Hispanic white participants with a cluster assignment were genotyped for 182 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Th2 pathway genes using whole-genome SNP data. Indi...

Spreadsheets often need changing in ways made tedious and risky by Excel. For example: simultaneously altering many tables' size, orientation, and position; inserting cross-tabulations; moving data between sheets; splitting and merging sheets. A safer, faster restructuring tool is, we claim, Excelsior. The result of a research project into reducing spreadsheet risk, Excelsior is the first ever ...

Introduction. Federal statistical agencies must balance concern over confidentiality of data with their obligation to report information to the public [5]. Advances in information technology threaten confidentiality , but also new technologies can protect confidentiality while meeting user needs in innovative ways. Here we describe table servers being developed by the National Institute of Stat...

• For square contingency tables with ordered categories, Agresti (1984, 2002) considered the marginal cumulative logistic (ML) model, which is an extension of the marginal homogeneity (MH) model. Miyamoto, Niibe and Tomizawa (2005) proposed the conditional marginal cumulative logistic (CML) model which is defined off the main diagonal cells, and gave the decompositions of the MH model using the...

The row-wise multiple comparison procedure proposed in Hirotsu [Hirotsu, C., 1977. Multiple comparisons and clustering rows in a contingency table. Quality 7, 27–33 (in Japanese); Hirotsu, C., 1983. Defining the pattern of association in two-way contingency tables. Biometrika 70, 579–589] has been verified to be useful for clustering rows and/or columns of a contingency table in several applica...

Almost every elementary statistics textbook has some coverage of the chi-square test (e. g., Comrey & Lee, 2007, Kirk, 2007, Howell, 2002). In particular, the chi-square test is presented in the analysis of categorical data. Most of these textbooks will take the reader up to the contingency table that involves the cross tabulation of two categorical variables. With contingency tables, there are...

In this chapter we examine some new measures for military operations other than war (MOOTW), commonly referred to in the Army as “smaller-scale contingency operations” (SSC) or “Stability and Support Operations.” According to current joint doctrine, there are sixteen contingency types within the category of MOOTW (Table 7.1). These range from a simple show-of-force operation to more complex und...

Contingency tables are a very common basis for the investigation of effects of different treatments or influences on a disease or the health state of patients. Many journals put a strong emphasis on p-values to support the validity of results. Therefore, even small contingency tables are analysed by techniques like t-test or ANOVA. Both these concepts are based on normality assumptions for the ...