<p></p><p>Preface xiii<br>1. Introduction: Distributions and Inference for Categorical Data 1<br>1.1 Categorical Response Data, 1<br>1.2 Distributions for Categorical Data, 5<br>1.3 Statistical Inference for Categorical Data, 9<br>1.4 Statistical Inference for Binomial Parameters, 14<br>1.5 Statistical Inference for Multinomial Parameters, 21<br>Notes, 26<br>Problems, 28<br>2. Describing Contingency Tables 36<br>2.1 Probability Structure for Contingency Tables, 36<br>2.2 Comparing Two Proportions, 43<br>2.3 Partial Association in Stratified 2
2 Tables, 47<br>2.4 Extensions for I
J Tables, 54<br>Notes, 59<br>Problems, 60<br>3. Inference for Contingency Tables 70<br>3.1 Confidence Intervals for Association Parameters, 70<br>3.2 Testing Independence in Two-Way Contingency<br>Tables, 78<br>3.3 Following-Up Chi-Squared Tests, 80<br>3.4 Two-Way Tables with Ordered Classifications, 86<br>3.5 Small-Sample Tests of Independence, 91<br>vii</p> <br>