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Name: The Chi-Square Distribution: Goodness-of-Fit Test
ID: m17192
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module describes how the chi-square distribution is used to conduct goodness-of-fit test.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: chi, elementary, fit, good, square, statistics, test
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu)
Copyright Holders: Maxfield Foundation (cnx@cnx.org)
Maintainers: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu), Connexions (cnx@cnx.org)
Latest version: 1.8 (history)
First publication date: Jul 5, 2008 2:16 pm -0500
Last revision to module: Jun 20, 2012 3:10 am -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.8 Jun 20, 2012 3:10 am -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
The Chi-Square Distribution: Goodness-of-Fit Test: Changed Examples 1 and 2.  Added additional calculator instructions.  Added note about cell entry being at least 5.  Did clean-up.
Version: 1.7 Feb 5, 2009 11:16 am -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
The Chi-Square Distribution: Goodness-of-Fit Test: Changed the sentence "The degrees of freedom are df = (number of columns - 1)(number of rows - 1)" to 
"The degrees of freedom are df = (number of categories - 1)."
Version: 1.6 Oct 27, 2008 8:41 pm -0500 by James Cooper
Changes: 
roles updated
Version: 1.5 Jul 14, 2008 5:09 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
removed image width params from media tags
Version: 1.4 Jul 9, 2008 3:49 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
table corrections
Version: 1.3 Jul 8, 2008 7:40 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
post review edits
Version: 1.2 Jul 7, 2008 5:26 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
post review updates
Version: 1.1 Jul 5, 2008 2:43 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
Initial publication

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