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Table 1 A contingency table showing how the counts, nxy are calculated for the generic term pair XY

From: Indirect association and ranking hypotheses for literature based discovery

 

Y

\(\overline {Y}\)

totals

X

n11=XY

\(n_{12} = X\overline {Y}\)

n1p=X∗

\(\overline {X}\)

\(n_{21}= \overline {X}Y\)

\(n_{22} = \overline {X}\overline {Y}\)

\(n_{2p} = \overline {X}*\)

totals

np1=∗Y

\(n_{p2} = *\overline {Y}\)

npp=**

  1. \(\overline {X}\) and \(\overline {Y}\) indicate any token except X or Y respectively. ∗ indicates any single token