[R] exact conditional mantelhaen.test estimate is 0 ?!

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Florian Hahne wrote:

> Dear listers,
>
> I am trying to compute the exact conditional test given strata margins
> of a 2 by 2 by K array using the mantelhaen.test function to get a
> common odds ratio estimate.
> The estimate for the test on the following data is 0, which in my
> opinion dosen't make any sense.
>

Indeed it doesn't.  Some probabilities are underflowing to zero.  It is 
informative to look at the estimates from
    mantelhaen.test(round(x/s), exact=TRUE)
for various values of s.  The estimate is stable at about 0.04 for 
large s until s gets to just above 1.8, then quickly decreases to zero.

I think you need exact=FALSE for data sets this large.

 	-thomas