Which Is Not True of the Two-Tailed F-Test for Equality

question 110

Multiple Choice

Which is not true of the two-tailed F-test for equality of variances?

• A)It requires reversing the numerator and denominator d.f. to obtain the left-tail critical value.
• B)It can be avoided by "folding" the larger variance into the numerator and adjusting α.
• C)It is fairly robust to the presence of nonnormality in the populations being sampled.

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