F distribution

British

noun

statistics a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances

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F distribution

Other uses for the F distribution include comparing two variances and two-way analysis of variance.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020

This is helpful in determining the degrees of freedom of the resultant F distribution.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

You will also study the F distribution, used for one-way ANOVA, and the test for differences between two variances.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

The distribution for the test is the F distribution with two different degrees of freedom.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013

It is called the F distribution, named after Sir Ronald Fisher, an English statistician.

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