Microsoft® Excel® 2010 Formulas & Functions Inside Out
by Helmut Reinke Egbert Jeschke Sara Unverhau, Eckehard Pfeifer, Bodo Fienitz, and Jens Bock
CHISQ.TEST()/CHITEST()
Syntax. CHISQ.TEST(actual_range,expected_range)
Definition. This function returns the test statistic of a χ2-test for independence. CHISQ.TEST() returns the value from the chi-squared (χ2) distribution for the statistic and the appropriate degrees of freedom. You can use c2-tests to determine whether hypothesized results are verified.
Arguments
actual_range (required). The range of data that contains observations to test against expected values
expected_range (required). The range of expected observations
Note
If actual_range and expected_range have a different number of data points, the function CHISQ.TEST() returns the #N/A error.
The c2-test first calculates a c2-statistic by using the following formula:
where
Aij = actual frequency ...
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