The Logic Behind the F-Test for Testing Whether Two Populations

question 20

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The logic behind the F-test for testing whether two populations have equal variances is to determine whether sample variances computed from random samples selected from the two populations differ due to sampling error, or whether the difference is more than can be attributed to sampling error alone, in which case, we conclude that the populations have different variances.

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