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Fisher’s exact test.
Implements a 2×2 Fishers exact test. Use this to test the independence of two categorical variables when the sample sizes are small.
For an approachable explanation of Fisher’s exact test, see Fisher’s exact test of independence by John H. McDonald in the Handbook of Biological Statistics.
The test is computed using code ported from Øyvind Langsrud’s JavaScript implementation at http://www.langsrud.com/fisher.htm, used with permission.
Structs
FishersExactPvalues
holds the pvalues calculated by the fishers_exact
function.TooLargeValueError
is returned by fishers_exact
when the input observed
table contains values too large. Currently “too large” is values greater than
std::i32::MAX
. Note that for large sample sizes tests other than Fisher’s exact
test of are more appropriate to determine statistical independence.Functions
Computes the Fisher’s exact pvales to determine if there are nonrandom associations between two
categorical variables, in a two by two contingency table.