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Uploaded by on Apr 2, 2008

The F distribution is used for two sample variances: to test the hypothesis that the two population variances are the same; e.g., is Yahoo's population variance different from Google's, given our sample size?

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  • Excellent - very clear and avoids the usual poor/simplistic explanations

  • @theoldorganplayer thank you, really appreciate that....

  • Hi EzE3000,

    Excel has a function for F distribution: = FDIST(). Hope that helps!

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  • It seems that your H1is : varience1>varience2

    but not varience 1 not equal varience 2.

    if you are testing varience 1 not equal varience 2, then you should find the F value whose first parameter equals alpha/2, but not alpha.

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  • You are a brilliant teacher! 

  • Thanks for the vid. A bit confused about the difference between what the f-test shows and what we conclude from the t-test.

    After watching your video it seems:

    The f-test is to s as the t-test is to xbar!?!

  • Sorry for my lack of understanding but, why do we want the larger variance in the numerator? How is an F distribution plotted as values from less than 1 to infin. if an F-stat given by our test is always greater or equal to 1?

    How would the distribution be plotted given two underlying populations with the same variances? I assume the smaller the sample sizes n the greater the skewness of the distribution (degrees of freedom).

    I struggle to understand how the distr. tends to normality. Ty.

  • how did u draw the curves and what are the parameters u used for both the curves...???

  • great video, thanks

  • What synthetic voice is BionicTurtle's?

  • @HRSDKK Check out burkeyacademy com and look for videos Inference I and Inference J under Econometrics 6. This might be what you're looking for.

  • It would be really awesome if you could make a video which easily explains how the normal, chi, t and f distribution relates to each other!

  • thankyou for the upload :) very clear and it helps :) xx

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