chi-square distribution
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.83 in modern English
38
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A probability distribution widely used in inferential statistics.
Example Sentences
- "1992, Harold R. Lindman, Analysis of Variance in Experimental Design, Springer, Softcover Reprint, page 7, The chi-square distribution with ν degrees of freedom is defined to be the distribution of the sum of ν independent squared random variables, each having the standard normal distribution."
- "The family of chi-square distributions, like the "Student's" t distributions, has an infinite number of members, one for each number of degrees of freedom."
- "The degrees of freedom of a chi-square distribution are usually denoted by the Greek letter #92;nu and can take any positive integer value."