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- CHI SQUARE ANALYSIS
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- AIM: This is the standard chi squared analysis, designed to take up to
- contingency tables up to 10 rows and 10 columns. The program can be easily
- customized to take larger tables, if necessary.
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- EXAMPLE: An investigation was made into fatal poisonings of children by
- three drugs which were the leading causes of such deaths. In each death,
- an inquiry was made as to how the child had received the fatal overdose and
- responsibility for the accident was assessed, as follows:
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- OBSERVATIONS DRUG A DRUG B DRUG C
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- Child responsible 8 12 13
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- Parent responsible 17 10 9
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- Another person 14 9 10
- responsible
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- The built-in Chi-square table provides a critical value of 9.5 at 4DF.
- Since the calculated value is only 4.33, there is not a significant
- difference and we can conclude that the three drug fatality groups may well
- be from the same population, i.e., that the apparent associations may well
- not be real.
-
- Data can be entered from a WordStar non-document file. Below is an example
- of the format:
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- Chi-squared data from file. <-- A title of up to 65 characters of any kind.
- 3 3 <-- Indicates 3 columns X 3 rows
- 8 12 13 <-- The data, just as it appears in the
- 17 10 9 table above.
- 14 9 10
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- REFERENCE: Goldstein, A. 1964 Biostatistics: An Introductory Text.
- Macmillan Company, New York. Pages 112-113 and Table 9.
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- BASIC VERSION: Dr. John Kalbfleisch Aug 81
- PASCAL VERSION: Dr. Stanley Kaplan Aug 85
- UPDATES: Oct 86 (Version 2.00)
- Feb 87 (Version 2.10)
- Feb 88 (MS-DOS, Version 2.2)
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