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Chi-Square Table

Like the Student's t-Distribution, the Chi-square distribtuion's shape is determined by its degrees of freedom. The animation above shows the shape of the Chi-square distribution as the degrees of freedom increase (1, 2, 5, 10, 25 and 50). For examples of tests of hypothesis which use the Chi-square distribution, see Statistics in crosstabulation tables in the Basic Statistics and Tables chapter as well as the Nonlinear Estimation chapter. See also, Chi-square Distribution. As shown in the illustration below, the values inside this table are critical values of the Chi-square distribution with the corresponding degrees of freedom. To determine the value from a Chi-square distribution (with a specific degree of freedom) which has a given area above it, go to the given area column and the desired degree of freedom row. For example, the .25 critical value for a Chi-square with 4 degrees of freedom is 5.38527. This means that the area to the right of 5.38527 in a Chi-square distribution with 4 degrees of freedom is .25.

Right tail areas for the Chi-square Distribution

df\area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

.995 0.00004 0.01003 0.07172 0.20699 0.41174 0.67573 0.98926 1.34441 1.73493 2.15586 2.60322 3.07382 3.56503

.990 0.00016 0.02010 0.11483 0.29711 0.55430 0.87209 1.23904 1.64650 2.08790 2.55821 3.05348 3.57057 4.10692

.975 0.00098 0.05064 0.21580 0.48442 0.83121 1.23734 1.68987 2.17973 2.70039 3.24697 3.81575 4.40379 5.00875

.950 0.00393 0.10259 0.35185 0.71072 1.14548 1.63538 2.16735 2.73264 3.32511 3.94030 4.57481 5.22603 5.89186

.900 0.01579 0.21072 0.58437 1.06362 1.61031 2.20413 2.83311 3.48954 4.16816 4.86518 5.57778 6.30380 7.04150

.750 0.10153 0.57536 1.21253 1.92256 2.67460 3.45460 4.25485 5.07064 5.89883 6.73720 7.58414 8.43842 9.29907

.500 0.45494 1.38629 2.36597 3.35669 4.35146 5.34812 6.34581 7.34412 8.34283 9.34182

.250 1.32330 2.77259 4.10834 5.38527 6.62568 7.84080 9.03715

.100 2.70554 4.60517