To Avoid the Problem of Having Access to Tables of the F

question 64

Multiple Choice

To avoid the problem of having access to tables of the F distribution with values for the lower tail when a one-tailed test is required, let the _____ variance be the numerator of the test statistic.

• A) smaller sample
• B) larger sample
• C) sample variance from the population with the smaller hypothesized
• D) sample variance from the population with the larger hypothesized

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