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contingency
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contingency
a critical event such as birth or death or affliction with a particular disease.

contingency coefficient
see contingency coefficient.
contingency table
tabular classification of epidemiological data in horizontal lines and vertical rows, e.g. cause of death vertically and age horizontally, so that each patient appears only once.


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The maximum reported turbulence intensity at each 50 mb pressure level within 6 hours of the sounding time were arranged in a 6 x 5 contingency table with ranges of breaking wave drag computed from nearby soundings (Table 2).
Relate the magnitude of the kappa to the maximum attainable kappa for the contingency table concerned, as well as to 1; this provides an indication of the effect of imbalance in the marginal totals on the magnitude of kappa.
C, n l, n2) of the contingency table followed a uniform distribution; the 5% and 95% values of the distribution from this analysis yielded the 95% CI for completeness.
 
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