%0 Book Section %T Phi-divergence-type test for positive dependence alternatives in 2 x k contingency tables publisher Birkhäuser %D 2006 %U 978-0-8176-4361-4 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53187 %X In this chapter, we consider 2 x k contingency tables and derive a new family of test statistics for detecting positive dependence in them. The family of test statistics introduced here is based on the phi-divergence measures of which the likelihood ratio test is a special case. %~