- This is part of probstat.
Variance estimations
Estimator 1. The first estimator for
is
This estimator is always correct. (Even when
is not true.)
Estimator 2. The second estimator is calculated from the sample means. It will be correct only when
is true.
Hypothesis testing
Then compute
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and
Recall that
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,
and
.
Also, since
is independent of
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,
and
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are independent. Thus, the statistic
Therefore, we can use the table for the F-distribution to test for .