Re: Chi Square Areas
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- Subject: [mg110914] Re: Chi Square Areas
- From: Ray Koopman <koopman at sfu.ca>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:20:08 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jul 10, 1:01 am, Steve <s... at epix.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone show me how to get Mathematica to provide the areas to the > right of a given critical value of the Chi Square distribution ? > > The table entries shown athttp://www2.lv.psu.edu/jxm57/irp/chisquar.html > are what I need to compute. > > For example, given 8 degrees of freedom and a probability value of > 0.05 the result would be 15.51. > > And given 5 degrees of freedom with probability 0.1 the result is > 9.24. > > How can I produce these results in Mathematica ? > > Thanks so much. In[1]:= {df = 8, p = .05, 2 InverseGammaRegularized[df/2, p]} Out[1]= {8, 0.05, 15.5073} In[2]:= {df = 5, p = .1, 2 InverseGammaRegularized[df/2, p]} Out[2]= {5 ,0.1, 9.23636}