TY - CHAP AU - Pardo Llorente, Leandro AU - Menéndez Calleja, María Luisa A4 - Balakrishnan, N. A4 - Castillo, Enrique A4 - Sarabia, José Maria PY - 2006 DO - 10.1007/0-8176-4487-3_27 SN - 978-0-8176-4361-4 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53187 AB - 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... M2 - 417 PB - Birkhäuser KW - asymptotic distributions KW - likelihood ratio test KW - phi-divergence test statistics KW - 2 x k contingency tables KW - ordered-alternatives KW - probabilities KW - trends TI - Phi-divergence-type test for positive dependence alternatives in 2 x k contingency tables TY - book part ER -