WARNING: 50% of the cells have expected counts less than 5. (Asymptotic) Chi-Square may not be a valid test.

Prior beliefs of association and independence in a two-way contingency table are discussed, and estimators of the cell probabilities are proposed which can incorporate this prior information. In the 2 ...

Large contingency tables arise in many contexts but especially in the collection of survey and census data by government statistical agencies. Because the vast majority of the variables in this ...