Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31124 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 449
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sonderforschungsbereich 386 - Statistische Analyse diskreter Strukturen, München
Abstract: 
We address the problem of maximally selected chi-square statistics in the case of a binary Y variable and a nominal X variable with several categories. The distribution of the maximally selected chi-square statistic has already been derived when the best cutpoint is chosen from a continuous or an ordinal X, but not when the best split is chosen from a nominal X. In this paper, we derive the exact distribution of the maximally selected chi-square statistic in this case using a combinatorial approach. Applications of the derived distribution to variable selection and hypothesis testing are discussed based on simulations. As an illustration, our method is applied to a pregnancy and birth data set.
Subjects: 
Categorical variables
association test
contingency table
exact distribution
variable selection
selection bias
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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