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Note on the “correction for continuity” in testing the significance of the difference between correlated proportions

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Methods of correcting for continuity in tests of significance of the difference between correlated proportions are presented. These corrections should increase the range of usefulness of the formulas developed by McNemar (1).

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  1. McNemar, Q. Note on the sampling error of the difference between correlated proportions.Psychometrika, 1947,12, 153–157.

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  2. Yates, F. Contingency tables involving small numbers and the x2 test.Suppl. J. Roy. Stat. Soc., 1934,1, 217–235.

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    Allen L. Edwards

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Edwards, A.L. Note on the “correction for continuity” in testing the significance of the difference between correlated proportions. Psychometrika 13, 185–187 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289261

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