chi-square

• “Goodness of fit between different documents was obtained by computing the so called Q value from the standard chi-square hypothesis test.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deconstructing Obama

• “Using the chi-square statistic," observes one professor, "Obama's and Ayers's books were indistinguishable, while Obama's book was easily distinguishable from books by other authors.”

  Archive 2009-10-01

• “I did a chi-square "goodness of fit" test and got a P value of 0.18.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “Now, let's apply the chi-square test to each set of the following made-up numbers.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “By a chi-square test, this has a 99% probability of indicating an increased confusion of flaunt for flout.”

  Flout good taste; flaunt your excesses « Motivated Grammar

• “Rabett Labs hitched up the IBM computators bought cheap from the Manhattan Project, shanghaied recruited a bunch of young volunteers, and found that for this case Pearson's chi-square statistic is 94, which means that the probability of the null hypothesis being true is 4.5 x 10-18 or about as likely as Ethon going vegan.”

  Archive 2010-01-01

• “But applying Pearson's chi-square assumes a lot more than that!”

  New Year's Puzzler

• “So the result from Pearson's chi-square is correct, and we can conclude that EITHER earthquake occurrence is related to day of the week, OR earthquake occurences are correlated, or both.”

  New Year's Puzzler

• “Another commenter and I did have some discussion about it a while back in which chi-square came up.”

  TPM Track Composite: Obama's Big Lead Inches Up Yet Again

• “He suggested reading the Wiki article on the chi-square test.”

  TPM Track Composite: Obama Ahead By More Than Eight Points

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