Chi-square test — is often shorthand for Pearson s chi square test. A chi square test (also chi squared or chi^2 test) is any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic has a chi square distribution when the null hypothesis is true, or any in which… … Wikipedia
chi-square test — any statistical hypothesis test that employs the chi square (χ2) distribution (q.v.), especially two tests applied to categorical data: the χ2 test of goodness of fit, which tests whether an observed frequency distribution fits a… … Medical dictionary
chi-square test — noun any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic has a chi square distribution if the null hypothesis is true … Wiktionary
chi-square — noun A test statistic used in the chi square test … Wiktionary
Pearson's chi-square test — Pearson s chi square ( chi;2) test is the best known of several chi square tests – statistical procedures whose results are evaluated by reference to the chi square distribution. Its properties were first investigated by Karl Pearson. In contexts … Wikipedia
chi-square — noun Usage: often attributive Date: 1900 a statistic that is a sum of terms each of which is a quotient obtained by dividing the square of the difference between the observed and theoretical values of a quantity by the theoretical value … New Collegiate Dictionary
chi-squaretest — chi square test n. A test that uses the chi square statistic to test the fit between a theoretical frequency distribution and a frequency distribution of observed data for which each observation may fall into one of several classes. * * * … Universalium
Statistic — A statistic (singular) is the result of applying a function (statistical algorithm) to a set of data. More formally, statistical theory defines a statistic as a function of a sample where the function itself is independent of the sample s… … Wikipedia
Chi-squared test — Chi square test is often shorthand for Pearson s chi square test. A chi square test, also referred to as chi squared test or χ2 test, is any statistical hypothesis test in which the sampling distribution of the test statistic is a chi square… … Wikipedia
Chi-squared distribution — This article is about the mathematics of the chi squared distribution. For its uses in statistics, see chi squared test. For the music group, see Chi2 (band). Probability density function Cumulative distribution function … Wikipedia
