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F distribution

n
(Statistics) 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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The resulting F-statistic is compared to the distribution of scores on the F-distribution and that shows, for those degrees of freedom, whether the result is statistically significant.
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has an F-distribution with [v.sub.1] (numerator) and [v.sub.2] (denominator) degrees of freedom.
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