Changing Students' Perspectives of McNemar's Test of Change

Abstract

An alternative perspective is presented for teaching students the logic and details underlying McNemar's test of the equality of correlated proportions. The new perspective enables straightforward extension to other correlated proportions situations.

Keywords:

• Correlated proportions
• Multinomial proportions
• Teaching statistics

Acknowledgments

Both authors contributed equally to this note. The constructive feedback provided by three anonymous reviewers of an earlier version of the manuscript was appreciated and incorporated.