Chi-square tests

The chi-square test is a statistical test commonly used to compare observed data with the expected data assuming that the data follows a certain hypothesis. In a sense, this is also a hypothesis test. You assume one hypothesis, which your data will follow and calculate the expected data according to that hypothesis. You already have the observed data. You calculate the deviation between the observed and expected data using the statistics defined in the following formula:

Chi-square tests

Where O is the observed value and E is the expected value while the summation is over all the data points.

The chi-square test can be used to do the following things: ...

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