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SUMMARY A Monte Carlo investigation of 2 X n tables with fixed marginals has been performed. The results of the Monte Carlo distribution show that the probability of Type I error given by the conventional x2 test is in general conservative for 5 or more degrees of freedom even when expectations of successes are very small in each
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