BARTLETT ADJUSTMENT FOR SPARSE BINARY DATA

Mohammad Reza Zadkarami (Iran)

Received December 15, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: Bartlett adjustment, binary, likelihood ratio test, generalized linear models, sparse data.