How to use χ2 test correctly—— χ2 tests for the data collected from the three kinds of two dimensional contingency tables without ordinal variables in two directions / 四川精神卫生

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article was to introduce the χ2 test and SAS and R software implementation of three kinds of two-way unordered two-dimensional contingency table data except the four-fold table data. The three kinds of the tables referred to the two-way unordered “R×2”“2×C” and “R×C” （both R and C were greater than 2） contingency tables. Generally speaking， the purpose of analyzing them was to test whether the two attribute variables in the contingency table were independent. When certain prerequisites were met， the simple statistical analysis method that could be used was the χ2 test， when the specific prerequisites were not met， the Fisher’s exact test， which required the large amount of calculation， should be selected.