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Chi-squared distribution

David MacKay motivates (in passing) the chi-squared distribution through exercise 2.5.

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Recognize that z is a function of the of a random variable nB which is in turn a sum of independent Bernouilli random variables. z can be thought of as trying to measure how many standard devations away from the mean nB is. 

The official chi-squared distribution is specific to the case where nB is normally distributed with some mean and variance.