[Corpora-List] how to calculate Chi-square criterion correctly?

[Kopotev]

Look at this Web Chi Square Calculator, for example
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/webtools/web_chi.html

Mikhail Kopotev
Researcher
Department of Slavonic
and Baltic Languages and Literatures
University of Helsinki



Yuri Tambovtsev пишет:
> Dear Corpora colleagues, do you know if the modern way of calculating 
> the Chi-square criterion is different than it was some 30 years ago? 
> Or is it the same? For example, I calculate the Chi-square between 22 
> and 8 as 6.53. Thus, at the 5% level the theoretical value is 3.84 at 
> one degree of freedom. It is much less than 6.53. Therefore, the 
> difference is statistically significant.Is it a correct way of 
> calculating the Chi-square criterion? Looking forward to hearing from 
> you soon to yutamb at mail.ru <mailto:yutamb at mail.ru> Yours sincerely 
> Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia = yutamb at mail.ru 
> <mailto:yutamb at mail.ru>