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Estimates of conditional uncertainty, contingent uncertainty, and normed modifications of contingent uncertainty have been proposed for the two-way contingency table. The asymptotic standard errors of the estimates are derived.
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This research was supported by NIH Special Research Resources Grant RR-3.
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Brown, M.B. The asymptotic standard errors of some estimates of uncertainty in the two-way contingency table. Psychometrika 40, 291–296 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02291759
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