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Interpreting a chi-square test
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[QUOTE="JulienB, post: 5506467, member: 574060"] [h2]Homework Statement [/h2] Hi everybody! In the context of a physics experiment about radioactivity, I am asked to perform two distributions (poisson and normal) and run a chi-square test for both of them in order to define which one is the most adapted to the histogram (see attached picture). [h2]Homework Equations[/h2] ##\chi^2 = \sum \frac{(k_j(x) -n \cdot P_j)^2}{n \cdot P_j}## [h2]The Attempt at a Solution[/h2] So I've used the equation above and got for the Poisson distribution ##\chi^2 = 13.992##. How do I interpret this result? I've got 11 degrees of freedom (13 bins - 1 - 1 parameter) so I looked in that table: [URL]http://passel.unl.edu/Image/Namuth-CovertDeana956176274/chi-sqaure%20distribution%20table.PNG[/URL] and I see that ##\alpha \approx .25##. What does that mean? Is that good/bad? With this calculator: [URL]http://stattrek.com/online-calculator/chi-square.aspx[/URL] I've got for p-value .77, which seems to be ##1- \alpha##. I'm just not sure just what to think about those numbers.Thanks a lot in advance for your answers.Julien. [/QUOTE]
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