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Stata Teaching Tools:  Chi-squared distribution

Purpose:  The purpose of this program is to display a
chi-squared distribution for the number of degrees of
freedom specified by the user. 

Download:  You can download this program from within Stata by
typing search chidemo (see
How can I use the search command to search for programs and get additional
help?
for more information about using search).

Use of program:  To use this program, type chidemo # # in the
Stata command window.  The first number is the optional degrees of freedom (default
is 1) and the second number is the optional alpha level (default is .05).

Examples:  The following shows the output from issuing the chidemo command with a
degrees of freedom equal to 10.

. chidemo 10

Image chidemcrw1

The following shows the output from issuing the chidemo command with a
degrees of freedom equal to 10 and alpha equal to .01.

. chidemo 10 .01

Image chidemcrw2