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Chi-square tests

Chi-square goodness of fit and chi-square test of independence, and which question each answers.

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About 35 minutes to complete

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What this module covers

chi-square goodness of fit and chi-square test of independence, and which question each answers; the expected-count assumption and the 5-in-80% rule; Fisher's exact test and when it is required; Yates' continuity correction; the Crosstabs path in full; reading the output table by table; Cramér's V and phi as effect sizes; standardised residuals to find which cell drives the result; APA reporting sentence.

By the end of it

  • Chi-square goodness of fit and chi-square test of independence, and which question each answers
  • The expected-count assumption and the 5-in-80% rule
  • Fisher's exact test and when it is required
  • Yates' continuity correction
  • The Crosstabs path in full
  • Reading the output table by table
  • Cramér's V and phi as effect sizes
  • Standardised residuals to find which cell drives the result
  • APA reporting sentence

The dataset

Antenatal care and birth outcome — Sigma teaching dataset

A teaching dataset of 300 cases, generated from a fixed seed so every figure in the module reproduces exactly.

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