fisherExactTest: Fisher's Exact Test

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Fisher's Exact Test

Description

Performs the (one-sided) Fisher's exact test to a collection of 2 x 2 tables of the form:

	event	not event
drug	a	c
not drug	b	d

Usage

fisherExactTest(a, b, c, d, midpvalue = FALSE)

Arguments

a	A vector with the counts of the upper left corner of the tables
b	A vector with the counts of the lower left corner of the tables
c	A vector with the counts of the upper right corner of the tables
d	A vector with the counts of the lower right corner of the tables
midpvalue	The mid-p-value correction (suggested by Agresti) is applied

Details

Wrapper function for the Rcpp functions fishersTestGreater and midPFishersTestGreater.

Value

p-value

References

Ahmed, I., Dalmasso, C., Haramburu, F., Thiessard, F., Bro\"et, P., & Tubert-Bitter, P. (2010). False Discovery Rate Estimation for Frequentist Pharmacovigilance Signal Detection Methods. Biometrics, 66(1), 301–309. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01262.x

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