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The Application of the Chi-Squared Test

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

R. L. Plackett
R. L. Plackett*
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Department of Statistics, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Suppose that we open a telephone directory and select any column which consists entirely of personal names. The last digit of each telephone number would seem to have no preferred value. For example, the middle column on p. 417 of the 1970 Newcastle upon Tyne directory contains 109 names, and the frequencies for 0,1,…, 9 are as follows.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 55 , Issue 394 , December 1971, pp. 363 - 366
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1971

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