Thanks for the response. I will use it as a way to get insight into the
data, but for little else.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 4:35 AM
Subject: st: RE: What does contribution to chi-square mean in tabchii
> -tabchii- is a user-written command. A version
> which will work in Stata 6 through 8 is
> available from the -tab_chi- package on SSC
> and an earlier version which will work in
> Stata 5 is available from
> http://www.stata.com/users/njc/tab_chi/
>
> I am not sure what kind of answer Don
> wants here. The definition of contribution
> given in the help file is
>
> (observed frequency - expected frequency)^2
> / expected frequency
>
> and Don clearly understands that. The
> programmer's intent in allowing
> such contributions to be shown was that
> some users like to see that step, perhaps
> even as a check on hand calculations.
> Personally I much prefer to look at
> the (signed) square root of that
>
> (observed freq - expected freq)
> / sqrt(expected frequency)
>
> given the usual argument that the direction of
> deviation from expectation is often helpful
> in interpretation. These quantities are called Pearson
> residuals in -tabchii- and indeed
> elsewhere. And in turn a refinement
> on that, the adjusted residual,
> has a distribution in the null case
> that is closer to Gaussian(0,1).
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Donald Spady
>
> > Can you please tell me how to interpret the chi-square
> > 'contribution' to
> > chi-sqare as used in tabchii. I find it useful in telling
> > me where the
> > total chi-square is coming from but is there more that one
> > can get out of
> > it? i.e. say the chi-square (total) is 100 and the
> > contribution of one cell
> > is 55, another is 35, another 5 and another 5. Obviously
> > the first cell's
> > chi square counts a lot but can I say anything else, say in
> > regard to cell
> > 2's chi-square of 35. Or is it just an interesting way of
> > getting an
> > insight into the data.
>
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