Symmetry Plus Quasi Uniform Association Model and Its Orthogonal Decomposition for Square Contingency Tables

Abstract

A model is proposed having the structure of both symmetry and quasi-uniform association (SQU model) and provides a decomposition of the SQU model. It is also shown with examples that the test statistic for goodness-of-fit of the SQU model is asymptotically equivalent to the sum of those for the decomposed models.