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The fisher-yates exact test and unequal sample sizes

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A computational short cut suggested by Feldman and Klinger for the one-sided Fisher-Yates exact test is clarified and is extended to the calculation of probability values for certain two-sided tests when sample sizes are unequal.

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  1. Edgar M. Johnson

    Present address: the U.S. Army Behavior and Systems Research Laboratory, 1300 Wilson Boulevard, 22209, Arlington, Virginia

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Johnson, E.M. The fisher-yates exact test and unequal sample sizes. Psychometrika 37, 103–106 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02291416

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