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

We begin with the F distribution and the test of hypothesis of differences in variances.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

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

From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013

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

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As the degrees of freedom increase in an F distribution, the distribution becomes more nearly normal.

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