Don’t test me: Using Fisher’s exact test to unearth stories about statistical relationships (Repost)
January 19, 2017

Don’t test me: Using Fisher’s exact test to unearth stories about statistical relationships (Repost)

This week I had an article published in Data Driven Journalism on the use of Fisher’s exact test with contingency tables.  It is reprinted here. A common problem faced by data journalists  is how to determine if there is a statistical relationship between two categorical variables such as gender, race, or the share of the […]