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A Cautionary Note on Exact Unconditional Inference for a Difference between Two Independent Binomial Proportions

A Cautionary Note on Exact Unconditional Inference for a Difference between Two Independent Binomial Proportions

Summary Fisher's exact test for comparing response proportions in a randomized experiment can be overly conservative when the group sizes are small or when the response proportions are close to zero or one. This is primarily because the null distribution of the test statistic becomes too discrete, a partial consequence …