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Function Reference: chi2cdf

statistics: p = chi2cdf (x, df)
statistics: p = chi2cdf (x, df, 'upper')

Chi-squared cumulative distribution function (CDF).

For each element of x, compute the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the chi-squared distribution with df degrees of freedom. The chi-squared density function with df degrees of freedom is the same as a gamma density function with parameters df/2 and 2.

The size of p is the common size of x and df. A scalar input functions as a constant matrix of the same size as the other input.

p = chi2cdf (x, df, "upper") computes the upper tail probability of the chi-squared distribution with df degrees of freedom, at the values in x.

Further information about the chi-squared distribution can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-squared_distribution

See also: chi2inv, chi2pdf, chi2rnd, chi2stat

Source Code: chi2cdf

Example: 1

Plot various CDFs from the chi-squared distribution

 x = 0:0.01:8;
 p1 = chi2cdf (x, 1);
 p2 = chi2cdf (x, 2);
 p3 = chi2cdf (x, 3);
 p4 = chi2cdf (x, 4);
 p5 = chi2cdf (x, 6);
 p6 = chi2cdf (x, 9);
 plot (x, p1, '-b', x, p2, '-g', x, p3, '-r', ...
       x, p4, '-c', x, p5, '-m', x, p6, '-y')
 grid on
 xlim ([0, 8])
 legend ({'df = 1', 'df = 2', 'df = 3', ...
          'df = 4', 'df = 6', 'df = 9'}, 'location', 'southeast')
 title ('Chi-squared CDF')
 xlabel ('values in x')
 ylabel ('probability')
plotted figure