Sensitivity of Raked Contingency Table Totals to Changes in Problem Conditions

Abstract

This paper describes a way of investigating how the entries in a "raked" contingency table--one based on a given contingency table but having row and column totals equal to specified quantities in such a way as to minimize "discrimination information" between the two tables--vary as functions of the entries of the original table and the quantities to which the row and column totals of the "raked" table are constrained to be equal.