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A note on the calculation of probabilities in an F-distribution
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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 7 ,  Issue 12  (December 1964) table of contents
Page: 725  
Year of Publication: 1964
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
K. W. Smillie  Univ. of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T. H. Anstey  Department of Agriculture, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Tests of significance based on analysis of variance calculations often require the determination of the probabilities of obtaining values of F greater than those arising from the analysis. These probabilities are customarily obtained from tables of the F-distribution. However, when the calculations are done on a computer, it would be convenient if estimates of these probabilities could be calculated by the analysis of variance program and presented in the output of the results. This note gives a simple method of doing so.


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1
Cecil Hastings, Approximations for Digital Computers, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1955
 
2
KENDALL, M. G. The Advanced Theory of Statistics, Vol. II. Charles Griffen, London, 1955.

CITED BY  2
William J. Hemmerle, Algorithm 591: A Comprehensive Matrix-Free Algorithm for Analysis of Variance, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), v.8 n.4, p.383-401, Dec. 1982
Frank G. Landram , James R. Cook , Marvin Johnston, Spreadsheet calculations of probabilities from the F, t, χ2, and normal distribution, Communications of the ACM, v.29 n.11, p.1090-1092, Nov. 1986
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K. W. Smillie: colleagues
T. H. Anstey: colleagues

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