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.
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- 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.