In informal experiments described elsewhere ( Melamed 1995 ) , I found that the G2 statistic suggested by Dunning ( 1993 ) slightly outperforms 02 .
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For example , Gale and Church ( 1991 , 154 ) suggest that `` 02 , a x2-like statistic , seems to be a particularly good choice because it makes good use of the off-diagonal cells '' in the contingency table . In informal experiments described elsewhere ( Melamed 1995 ) , I found that the G2 statistic suggested by Dunning ( 1993 ) slightly outperforms 02 . Let the cells of the contingency table be named as follows :
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