Definition for Chi-square test

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1) A chi-squared test is any statistical hypothesis test in which the sampling distribution of the test statistic is a chi-squared distribution when the null hypothesis is true.

2) A statistic used to measure how much a sample distribution differs from a theoretical distribution.