Pearson-fisher chi-square statistic revisited

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Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 528-545

  Bolboacă, Sorana D ^a   Jäntschi, Lorentz ^b   Sestraş, Adriana F ^b,c   Sestraş, Radu E ^b   Pamfil, Doru C ^b  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^c Fruit Research Station   (Romania)

Author keywords

2 2 contingency table; Chi square distribution; Chi square statistics; Fisher exact test

Indexed keywords

CHI SQUARE STATISTIC; CHI-SQUARE TESTS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; FISHER EXACT TEST; GOODNESS OF FIT; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 84879264436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20782489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/info2030528     Document Type: Article

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