A response to Sprott's "Use of chi square."

1 July 1964

journal article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

Vol. 69 (1) , 103-105
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0039872

Abstract

Issue is taken with Sprott's criticisms of the use of chi square in birth-order studies, including the author's recent paper on alcoholism, birth order, and family size. Sprott's argument that the chi-square test is inapproprite is discussed, but further statistical tests not involving chi square yielded the same conclusion, i.e, no birth-order effect. Also, interactions between birth-order effects and family sizes are unimportant for the alcoholism data and difficult to evaluate in any birth-order study where an overall test is required. The corrected family-size analyses are defended as the best available. Sprott's suggested changes in the family-size analyses do not affect the conclusion that persons from large families are over-represented among alcoholics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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