In this paper, we study the distribution tables of imperfectly shuffled hands in a bridge game under a conditional Markov chain model, based on which a simple approximate test on the randomness of the decks is derived. The idea is to examine whether a stochastic process is a compound...

Testing conditional symmetry against various alternative diagonals-parameter symmetry models often provides a point of departure in studies of square contingency tables with ordered categories. Typically, chi-square or likelihood-ratio tests are used for such purposes. Since these tests depend...