Questions tagged [f-test]
Any hypothesis test in which the statistic has an F distribution under the null hypothesis.
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Contradiction in F-test and t-test [duplicate]
I have generated a summary for a particular multiple linear regression
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Determining if a regression model fits the data using R-squared and F-test
I have an estimated regression functions with a low R-squared (ex: 0.08) and a low p-value for the F-statistic (0.003). I am trying to figure out if the regression model fits the data.
What provides a ...
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F-test for homogeneity with infinite degrees of freedom
I'm trying to replicate a previous analysis that is lacking in documentation. I am comparing estimated values between weeks to evaluate whether I should combine groups for analysis. The previous ...
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Sample size n in logistic regression?
I am doing a change in deviance test (F test) with Bernoulli response and numerical covariate x. I have set up the logistic regression model ...
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Nested model test for glm
I have a logistic regression model where failure observations are binary.y=cbind(failure, 1-failure). x= temperature. I have 24 observations in total, i.e. length(failure)=24. I wish to test if the ...
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Significance Testing of Difference in Variances of Autocorrelated Time Series Data
I have two consecutive time series of different length that both vary around some common mean, but exhibit different variances, see exemplary figures below. Both show quite substantial autocorrelation....
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Why doesn’t a $F$-statistic of 1 result in a $p$-value of about 0.5?
I’ve been presented with the following chain of reasoning.
In an ANOVA, if the null hypothesis is true the F-statistic is expected to be about 1.
A p-value is the probability of obtaining test ...
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Multiple Regression: Two Binary ind. vars. - Can an interaction term be significant, when the main effects are not?
I think this is a simple question, but I'm having difficulty coming up with a test or example for this.
Consider lm(A ~ B*C, data=D) where A is continuous; B and C ...
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Independence of groups within a single predictor variable
Say I have two variables: 'Sale Price' of a house, and 'Overall Quality' which is an ordinal variable with values between 1 and 10 (1=lowest quality, 10=highest quality).
I want to perform an F test ...
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Two-way fixed effects and the F-test
I have two questions regarding the reporting of scientific results. I was reading the following paper by Grinols and Mustard (2006) which can be downloaded here for free. Their main specification is a ...
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Why is this a problem? : Error: “the researcher is assuming an alpha level below the nominal” (p < 0.05)
I'm trying to understand an article about significance testing and ANOVA, where Monte Carlo simulations were ran. The final sentence of this paragraph (in bold) makes absolutely no sense to me.
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What assumptions must be satisfied to use R^2 to compute the F statistic?
Suppose I know R^2 for my symbolic regression. Can I use the formula $F = \frac{R^2}{1-R^2}\cdot \frac{n-p}{p-1}$ to do an F test?
My symbolic regression is of the form
Y = a + bf(A,B,C,D,E,G) + cg(A,...
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Regression Output Interpretation Pr(‧)
The following output regression is taken from Fryer et al. (2012).Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment.:
Can someone tell me how to interpret the ...
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Finding correlation of attributes to specific groups
Which statistical test is best to find the correlation of a categorical data vs. a numeric data.
For example:
I have 7 positions: '[Scoring PG', 'C', 'Wing F', 'Combo G', 'PF/C', 'Pure PG', 'Stretch ...
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Is the F-test the right choince for determining if a value lies singificantly away from the mean in a population?
I have the following table and want to determine is any value in the unique_enzyme column is significantly different from the rest of the values in the column and then again the same for the ...
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Control of type I error rate in functional ANOVA F-test
I am following how to compare curves via functional data analysis, specifically functional ANOVA. This video makes sense in describing it as being a lot like vanilla ANOVA...up to a point. When we do ...
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Testing for equality of variance for more than 2 groups
How do you test for equality of variance between, say, 3 groups? Is there an extension of the two-sample F-test? Or is it OK to just run multiple F-tests or permutation tests among 3 groups?
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Statistical Testing of Non-linear Model Parameters
I have produced three non-linear 4-parameter logistic curves based on some experimental observations using three different measurement devices. Each curve shows the measurement of density decline ...
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Robustness checks for fixed effects model
So I'm estimating a fixed effects model using plm that looks at the effects of immigrants on house prices in different districts over several years. And I was ...
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How to evaluate if the means differ between clusters and which variables contribute most to the clustering solution?
I want to cluster some data (with common methods like k-means, Ward or hierarchical k-means). I have 80 observations characterized by around 20 variables. The goal is to find a grouping scheme which ...
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How can I show that the LRT of $H_0:\theta_0=\theta_1=…=\theta_k$ is given by the F test under one-way ANOVA assumptions?
I am a bit curious as to how I can show this. I am aware that you can find this by using the union-intersection test, but it has been hinted that one can use the LRT test to find that LRT for $H_0$ is ...
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Why do we need F test of two variances if we have the Ansari-Bradley test?
I just read that the Ansari-Bradley test is a test of stochastic equality of two variances regardless of any distributional assumptions. If it is so flexible, why do we even need the F test?
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How to test for significance in a ratio between two samples?
I currently have two separate samples of objects, each of equal size. In each of these two samples, there is a subsample that exhibits a specific trait with some value of intensity. The value itself ...
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Does Hotelling's T-Squared test assume multivariate normal or all marginally normal?
Does doing hotelling's t-squared test assume our data is multivariate normal or just all the variables themselves are marginally normal?
Thanks!
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How Can I test the joint significance of the variables not selected?
I started a multiple regression with 10 predictors. I checked the linearity assumption and the significance of the model and now I have just 4 predictors but I have to test the joint significance of ...
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F-test for CO2 and Temperature, Find F values for both? [closed]
Given:
Yield Temp CO2
0 57 3.6 305
1 73 3.5 325
2 96 3.7 345
3 100 3.8 353
4 99 4.0 360
5 104 4.1 369
For regression on ...
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F-Test for Equality of Variances as Likelihood Ratio Test
Consider two normally distributed populations with unknown means $\mu_1$ and $\mu_2$ respectively and unknown variances $\sigma_1^2$ and $\sigma_2^2$ respectively. Let $X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_{n_1}$ and $...
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Performing hypothesis test in R to assess reduced model
I have a multiple linear regression model with 10 covariates, and I want to perform the hypothesis test that 5 of the covariates are equal to 0, versus the alternative hypothesis that at least one of ...
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F-test on many different fits
I have a set of 100 decay data sets. And what I want to do is, fit both a single exponential and also a double exponential decay to every single decay using Origin Pro. Afterwards I want to perform an ...
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Calculating the right number of clusters using elbow method
I want to calculate the optimum number of clusters for a dataset of 400 vectors with 4 dimensions. At each round, I calculate the f-test,
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in r, comparing two regression models with same number of independent variables for significant difference in prediction
I have two models that have the same dependent variable. Each model has 3 independent variables and differ on 1 of those variables (a continuous variable). I am not trying to select for which model ...
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Test of equality of third moment and above
To test for the equality between means of two samples, we have the two-sample t-test.
To test for the equality between variances of two samples, we have the F-test.
How do you test for the equality ...
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anova from R: output and interpretation of F-Tests
These question have been asked in many different ways as you can see here or here; however much of this topic is still beyond my understanding.
Let us consider a model having response variable $Y$, ...
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Test for equality of variances same as testing for equality of means under specific conditions
I stumbled on the quirk given below.
I am working on two implementations, one to test for equality of means using the t-test and another testing for equality of variances using Brown-Forsythe's F-...
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Is an f-test the correct method for power analysis of my multivariate regression data?
I have been working on solving a problem that requires power analysis to be run in order to determine if the subset of data that we're running analysis on is sufficient before we do the analysis. I ...
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likelihood view of F-test
Suppose I observe independent $X, Y$ where $X/\sigma^2 \sim \chi^2(\nu_1,\delta)$ and $Y/\sigma^2 \sim \chi^2(\nu_2,0)$, where $\sigma^2$ is some nuisance parameter. (The notation $\chi^2(\nu,\delta)$ ...
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Understanding Relationship Within the F Test
When conducting a one-way ANOVA, the _______ the between-treatment variability is when compared to the within-treatment variability, the _______ the value of FDATA will be tend to be.
a. smaller, ...
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Linear Regression: P-values of t-test of significance of regression coeficients are same as p-values of F-test about submodel
Suppose we have regression problem:
$$Y = \beta_{0}+\beta_{1}X_{1} + \beta_{2}X_{2} + \epsilon \text{, } \epsilon \sim \mathcal{N}(0,1),$$
where $X_1 \sim U(0,1)$,$X_{2} \sim U(1,2)$, and we suppose ...
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How can the F-test reject the null hypothesis while the KS test does not?
Suppose I have two datasets, $\mathbf{a}$ and $\mathbf{b}$. I want to test whether the two datasets are different in a statistically significant way.
To compute the F-test, I take the ratio of the ...
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hyp test: constant return to scale with Squared and interaction terms
I want to test if constant return to scale applies to my production function (modelA):
log(y) = log(x1) + log(x2) + log(x1)^2 + log(x1)*log(x2)
I have tried the following in r, but iam not sure if ...
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F-Test vs Independent Samples T-Test
If I have two samples from different populations and I would like to know if there is enough evidence to conclude that some particular relation. Ex. The IQ level is affected by the amount of fluoride ...
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Multiple linear regression, partial F-Test
I had seen many formulas out there and I hardly knew how to solve this exercise. Where it consists of:
Enter link data set for the question
I use $X_2,X_7\; and \;X_8$
Using the partial F test, ...
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Difference in Significance for a T and F test
After conducting a one way ANOVA, an F-test indicates that I should retain the null hypothesis (no two means differ), but the t-test (in line with the theory) tells me that the groups I tested are ...
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What good is an F-test and is using it as a test for significance of independent variable worth it?
An F-test may lead to the conclusion that a predictor is significant by an F-test low p-value. This is because while an independent variable like smoke (below) is statistically unimportant (high p-...
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Given two samples from N with known variances how to find probability that one sample's variance is two times larger than the other?
I have two samples with sizes 9 and 11 drawn from two independent normal distributions with variances 21 and 37 respectively. How can I find the probability that the variance of the first sample is ...
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Extremely High T-Test P-Value but Extremely Low F-Test P-Value
So I'm running a logistic regression on a binomial variable in R and came out with the following model.
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R-squared unbiased when F-test is biased in heteroscedasticity?
If R2 and F-statistic are in functional relationship, is it possible, that in case of heteroscedasticity F-test is biased but R-squared is not?
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When the linear term of a variable is insignificant, is it reasonable to use an F-test to state that they are jointly statistically significant?
I am running a multiple regression that takes the following simplified form (there are other variables not important to this question):
$$Y_{it}=\beta_0+\beta_{1}X_{it}+\beta_{2}X_{it}^2+u_{it}$$
$Y_{...
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Clarification on equal variance vs unequal variance t-test
In unequal variance t-test (Welch t-test):
$$H_0 = \text{No difference in means, but variance can differ}$$
$$H_1 = \text{Two sample means are significantly different}$$
I don't see the point of ...
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Relation between F test and T test. Are they mutually exclusive?
I am studying Statistics for data science since few months..
1)I am learning that, when we have to compare multiple samples (>2) then a T test would be tedious and instead we go for ANOVA and ...
