21.051 the Chi-squared question

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         Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 08:59:25 +0100
         From: "Michel Lemaire" <mlemaire17_at_sympatico.ca>
         Subject: RE: 21.035 how to use Chi-square correctly?

Hello!

I am not a specialist of statistics, so I cannot answer this message about
Khi2 (Chi square). But I am surprised that nobody, still, has given help on
what seems a simple question.

Michel Lemaire
mlemaire_at_uottawa.ca
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           Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:37:13 +0100
           From: "Juliana Tambovtseva" <jultamb_at_yandex.ru>

Dear Humanist colleagues, the discussion about reviewing process is quite on
time. My article was turned away because the reviewer wrote that I use the
Chi-square criterion in the way it was used 30 years ago. I am a linguist
but I guess that the calcilation of the Chi-square should be the same then
and now. Am I not correct? I wonder if anyone can help me to calculate it in
the modern way? For example, we have 22 Verbials in Agatha Christie and 8 -
in J.K.
Rowling. Both texts are of the equal size 10 000 words. I calculated the
Chi-square as 6.53. It means that there is a statistical difference between
them at the level of 5%, since the table value is 3.84. I wonder if I
calculate it correctly. Looking forward to hearing from you to
<mailto:yutamb_at_mail.ru>yutamb_at_mail.ru Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev
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