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Is the Yates' correction for continuity used only for 2X2 matrices?

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Read carefully: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates'_correction_for_continuity – mbq♦ Jul 28 '10 at 20:55
@mbq I did read the Wikipedia article but I wanted to confirm and verify it – Elpezmuerto Jul 29 '10 at 0:55

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It's derived for binomial/hypergeometric distributions, so it's applicable to 2x2 or 2x1 cases.

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