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

[Yuri Tambovtsev]

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 Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia = yutamb at mail.ru 
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