RT Journal Article T1 epsilon-Contaminated priors in contingency tables A1 Gómez Villegas, Miguel Ángel A1 González Pérez, Beatriz AB An r x s table is used for different approaches to statistical inference. We develop a Bayesian procedure to test simple null hypotheses versus bilateral alternatives in contingency tables. We consider testing equality of proportions of independent multinomial distributions when the common proportions are known. A lower bound of the posterior probabilities of the null hypothesis is calculated with respect to a mixture of a point prior on the null and an epsilon-contaminated prior on the proportions under the alternative. The resulting Bayes tests are compared numerically to Pearson's chi(2) in a number of examples. For the examined examples the lower bound and the p-value can be made close. The obtained results are generalized when the common proportions vector under the null is unknown or has a known functional form. PB Springer SN 1133-0686 YR 2008 FD 2008-05 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49411 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49411 LA eng NO Gómez Villegas, M. A. & gonzález Pérez, B. «ε-Contaminated Priors in Contingency Tables». TEST, vol. 17, n.o 1, mayo de 2008, pp. 163-78. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-006-0028-4. DS Docta Complutense RD 9 abr 2025