Suppose I have a table of counts that look like this
A B C
Success 1261 230 3514
Failure 381 161 4012
I have a hypothesis that there is some probability $p$ such that $P(Success_A) = p^i$, $P(Success_B) = p^j$ and $P(Success_C) = p^k$.
Is there some way to produce estimates for $p$, $i$, $j$ and $k$? The idea I have is to iteratively try values for $p$ between 0 and 1, and values for $i$, $j$ and $k$ between 1 and 5. Given the column totals, I could produce expected values, then calculate $\chi^2$ or $G^2$.
This would produce a best fit, but it wouldn't give any confidence interval for any of the values. It's also not particularly computationally efficient.
As a side question, if I wanted to test the goodness of fit of a particular set of values for $i$, $j$ and $k$ (specifically 1, 2, and 3), once I've calculated $\chi^2$ or $G^2$, I'd want to calculate significance on the $\chi^2$ distribution with 1 degree of freedom, correct? This isn't a normal contingency table since relationship of each column to the others is fixed to a single value. Given $p$, $i$, $j$ and $k$, filling in a single value in a cell fixes what the values of the other cells must be.