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The Distribution of the χ 2 Statistic in Small Contingency Tables

Author(s) -

Craddock J. M.,

Flood C. R.

Publication year - 1970

Publication title -

journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205

H-Index - 72

eISSN - 1467-9876

pISSN - 0035-9254

DOI - 10.2307/2346547

Subject(s) - contingency table , statistic , statistics , distribution (mathematics) , mathematics , econometrics , computer science , mathematical analysis

Summary An investigation is made into the distribution of the χ 2 statistic in contingency tables of sizes from 5 times 5 down to 3 times 2 when the average expectancies, based on the marginal totals, are about equal, and lie in the range from 1 to 5. Tables of the percentile values required for significance testing are produced and show systematic deviations from those of the χ 2 distribution. Similar results are given for testing 5 times 1, 4 times 1 and 3 times 1 frequency tables against the hypothesis of equal expected values.

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