Definition of Yates's correction in English:

Yates's correction

nounˈjeɪtsɪz

Statistics

A correction for the discreteness of the data that is made in the chi-square test when the number of cases in any class is small and there is one degree of freedom.
〔统计〕耶茨校正
Example sentencesExamples
- We calculated the risk ratio and 95% confidence interval using EpiInfo and used a test with Yates's correction for the hypothesis test.
- Non-attendance rates were expressed as percentage of total appointments (attenders plus non-attenders plus cancellations) and were compared by tests with Yates's correction.
- We used analyses with Yates's correction for continuity to test the prevalence of clinical and subthreshold eating disorders between the three cities and in the combined samples.
- We used the test with Yates's correction to avoid spurious rejection of the null hypothesis when expectations are too small.
- In this case, however, the same allele frequency-dependent pattern was maintained when we considered only interallelic GD shown to be significant by the chi-square test with Yates's correction.

Origin

1930s: named after Frank Yates (1902–94), English statistician.

单词	Yates's correction
释义	Definition of Yates's correction in English: Yates's correction nounˈjeɪtsɪz Statistics A correction for the discreteness of the data that is made in the chi-square test when the number of cases in any class is small and there is one degree of freedom. 〔统计〕耶茨校正 Example sentencesExamples We calculated the risk ratio and 95% confidence interval using EpiInfo and used a test with Yates's correction for the hypothesis test. Non-attendance rates were expressed as percentage of total appointments (attenders plus non-attenders plus cancellations) and were compared by tests with Yates's correction. We used analyses with Yates's correction for continuity to test the prevalence of clinical and subthreshold eating disorders between the three cities and in the combined samples. We used the test with Yates's correction to avoid spurious rejection of the null hypothesis when expectations are too small. In this case, however, the same allele frequency-dependent pattern was maintained when we considered only interallelic GD shown to be significant by the chi-square test with Yates's correction. Origin 1930s: named after Frank Yates (1902–94), English statistician.
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