Actually, the property that chi-square test on a variable
and itself returns n is more general, and not
specific to a binary variable. I never noticed
that before, but I never did the calculation before.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: RE: st: RE: RE: Re: chi squared matrix
>
> Chi-square on a binary variable and itself returns
> the number of observations. This is an ineluctable
> algebraic consequence of what is being done.
>
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