Pearson's chi-squared test
Evaluates how likely it is that any difference between data sets arose by chance
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Pearson's chi-squared test or Pearson's χ 2 {\displaystyle \chi ^{2}} test is a statistical test applied to sets of categorical data to evaluate how likely it is that any observed difference between the sets arose by chance. It is the most widely used of many chi-squared tests (e.g., Yates, likelihood ratio, portmanteau test in time series, etc.) – statistical procedures whose results are evaluated by reference to the chi-squared distribution. Its properties were first investigated by Karl Pearson in 1900.