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ArticlePloS one2017

Fisher's exact approach for post hoc analysis of a chi-squared test.

Guogen Shan, Shawn Gerstenberger

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03546114 (Does Gender Matter? Patient Preference in an Italian Osteopathic Clinical Setting), which is not on this map. Cited by 97 papers.

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97citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03546114 completednot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

Does Gender Matter? Patient Preference in an Italian Osteopathic Clinical Setting

TypeobservationalSponsorIstituto Superiore di Osteopatia di MilanoRan2018 to 2019Enrolled105ConditionsGender RoleArmsGender Questionnaire
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

97 citing papers in PubMed, 222 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guogen ShanSchool of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8690-6599
Shawn GerstenbergerSchool of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, United States of America.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas · US

Funding

Outreach/Diversity/Pipeline ProjectP20GM103440 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI ASTER SIGEL · 2012 to 2026
$58.0M
Tracking and EvaluationU54GM104944 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS · PI KUMAR, PARVESH · 2013 to 2023
$39.6M
Renewal of Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) (Phase 2) CNTN - ResubmissionP20GM109025 · NIGMS · CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION · PI Robert J. Fox, Jefferson Kinney · 2015 to 2026
$22.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103440NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM109025NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104944
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This research is motivated by one of our survey studies to assess the potential influence of introducing zebra mussels to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. One research question in this study is to investigate the association between the boating activity type and the awareness of zebra mussels. A chi-squared test is often used for testing independence between two factors with nominal levels. When the null hypothesis of independence between two factors is rejected, we are often left wondering where does the significance come from. Cell residuals, including standardized residuals and adjusted residuals, are traditionally used in testing for cell significance, which is often known as a post hoc test after a statistically significant chi-squared test. In practice, the limiting distributions of these residuals are utilized for statistical inference. However, they may lead to different conclusions based on the calculated p-values, and their p-values could be over- o6r under-estimated due to the unsatisfactory performance of asymptotic approaches with regards to type I error control. In this article, we propose new exact p-values by using Fisher's approach based on three commonly used test statistics to order the sample space. We theoretically prove that the proposed new exact p-values based on these test statistics are the same. Based on our extensive simulation studies, we show that the existing asymptotic approach based on adjusted residual is often more likely to reject the null hypothesis as compared to the exact approach due to the inflated family-wise error rates as observed. We would recommend the proposed exact p-value for use in practice as a valuable post hoc analysis technique for chi-squared analysis.

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DreissenaModels, TheoreticalAnimalsChi-Square DistributionHumansNevadaRecreation

Identifiers

PMID29261690
PMCPMC5737889
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