Meaning of chi-square distribution | Babel Free

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A probability distribution widely used in inferential statistics.

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“1992, Harold R. Lindman, Analysis of Variance in Experimental Design, Springer, Softcover Reprint, page 7, The chi-square distribution with ν degrees of freedom is defined to be the distribution of the sum of ν independent squared random variables, each having the standard normal distribution.”

“The family of chi-square distributions, like the "Student's" t distributions, has an infinite number of members, one for each number of degrees of freedom.”

“The degrees of freedom of a chi-square distribution are usually denoted by the Greek letter #92;nu and can take any positive integer value.”

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