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Fisher's exact test
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Fisher's exact test
a statistical test for association in a two-by-two table based on the exact hypergeometric distribution of the frequencies within the table.


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For univariate analysis of categorical variables, we used 2 x 2 tables; for multivariate analysis, we used conditional logistic regression to determine strength of association between HMPV infection and potential explanatory covariates to obtain relative odds (RO) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs); p values were obtained by using the Fisher exact test.
; Chicago) software was used to perform chi-square or Fisher Exact Test analysis for categorical data.
The Fisher exact test was used, and both point and exact 95 percent confidence values were determined for the odds ratio.
 
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