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One Categorical Variable

A slightly different situation to the previous section is if we have a random sample of n objects each of which can fall into exactly one of K `categories' (for example, roll a die 60 times; each time the die can be one of 6 values) and for the ith category we observe tex2html_wrap_inline5379 occurrences among the n objects. Now we let tex2html_wrap_inline5397 represent the hypothesized proportion of objects in the whole population of objects that fall into the ith category. Now we expect tex2html_wrap_inline5401 occurrences of category i and we can measure the distance between observed and expected results by the same tex2html_wrap_inline3701 statistic as above. The only difference in the procedure is that the degrees of freedom is now K-1 rather than K.



Jan Lethen
Wed Nov 13 16:20:46 CST 1996