ON HOMOGENEITY TEST USING ESTIMATING FUNCTION
Yoshinori Fujii · Bulletin of informatics and cybernetics · 1994
This paper examines the tests of homogeneity of odds ratios in independent experiments. Breslow and Day [2] and Tarone [10] proposed the tests which incorporate the Mantel-Haenszel estimator, but are essentially based on the efficient scores from the likelihood function. To broaden the distributional assumption and also to include the Mantel-Haenszel estimating equation, we introduce estimating equations and develop a homogeneity test. The extension makes it possible for us to apply this procedure to $ 2 \\times 2 $ tables which follow a negative binomial distribution.