Yates’s correction for continuity

an adjustment made to a chi-square test of data from a contingency table having only two columns and two rows of information. The Yates’s correction yields a more conservative chi-square statistic and improves the test’s accuracy by accounting for the fact that it uses a continuous distribution to approximate a discrete distribution. [Frank Yates (1902–1994), British statistician]

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Psychology term of the day

January 23rd 2025

negative recency

in recalling a list of items, the tendency to recall fewer of the final items of the list than the middle and early items. Negative recency contrasts with the enhanced recall of final items seen in the recency effect. Also called negative recency effect