Abstract
Significance tests of categorical variables involve the comparison of a set of observed frequencies with frequencies specified by a hypothetical distribution. We may ask, for instance:
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Do people have the same probability of dying in the month in which they were born as any other month?
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Is there a relationship between race/ethnicity and political affiliation?
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Is choice of occupation related to one’s gender?
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Voelkl, K.E., Gerber, S.B. (1999). Inference on Categorical Data. In: Using SPSS for Windows. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3090-6_14
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