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BinomialTest can report incorrect p-values for extreme values #9

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psteitz opened this issue Aug 28, 2016 · 0 comments
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BinomialTest can report incorrect p-values for extreme values #9

psteitz opened this issue Aug 28, 2016 · 0 comments

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psteitz commented Aug 28, 2016 •
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This was reported as (Apache Commons) MATH-1381 . When the number of successes is 0 or equal to the number of trials, in some cases the 2-sided test algorithm will double-count the probability of the extreme value, causing the returned p-value to be inflated.
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Updated changelog for #9 fix.
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