Introductory Statistics
1st Edition
ISBN: 9781938168208
Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 11, Problem 53P
Which test do you use to decide whether an observed distribution is the same as an expected distribution?
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