The sampling distribution of the test statistic for a goodness-of-fit test with k categories is:
A) Student t distribution with k-1 degrees of freedom
B) normal distribution
C) chi-square distribution with k-1 degrees of freedom
D) approximately chi-square distribution with k-1 degrees of freedom
E) approximately chi-square distribution with k degrees of freedom

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The test statistic for a goodness-of-fit test follows an approximately chi-square distribution with k-1 degrees of freedom, where k is the number of categories.

The Sampling Distribution of the Test Statistic for a Goodness-Of-Fit