likelihood.test: Likelihood Ratio (G test) for contingency tables
In Deducer: A Data Analysis GUI for R

Performs a likelihood ratio test of independence

1	likelihood.test(x,y=NULL,conservative=FALSE)

`x`	A vector or a matrix
`y`	A vector that is ignored if x is a matrix and required if x is a vector
`conservative`	If `TRUE`, the Williams' continuity correction is used

A list with class "htest" containing the following components:

`statistic`	the value the chi-squared test statistic.
`parameter`	the degrees of freedom of the approximate chi-squared distribution of the test statistic.
`p.value`	the p-value for the test.
`method`	a character string indicating the type of test performed, and whether the continuity correction was used.
`data.name`	a character string giving the name(s) of the data.