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    The document discusses the F distribution and conducting F-tests. It provides learning objectives about explaining the F-test and F-distribution. It then gives two examples of F-tests conducted on sample data to test for differences in variances.

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    Topic: Foundations of Statistics and Probability for Data Science

    Sub-Topics: F distribution

    LEARNING OBJECTIVES :

    1. Be able to explain f test

    1.1. Be able to explain F-distribution for two sample variances and be able
    to compute F-statistic

    Name of Presenter: Pavan Kumar S Page 1 of 4


    Date of Presentation: 19/08/2021
    Topic: Foundations of Statistics and Probability for Data Science
    Sub-Topics: F distribution

    QUESTION 1 :

    Conduct an F-Test on the following samples:

    Sample - 1 having variance = 109.63, sample size = 41.

    Sample - 2 having Variance = 65.99, sample size = 21.

    Ho: No difference in variances

    Ha: Difference in variances

    Take the higher variance as the numerator and the lower variance as the
    denominator.

    F score = σ12/σ22 = 109.63/65.99 = 1.66

    Df1 = 41 - 1 = 40; df2 = 21 - 1 = 20

    Alpha = 0.05. This needs to be halved for the test, so use 0.025.

    Critical F-Value (40, 20) at alpha (0.05 / 2) = 2.287

    Here, 1.66 < 2 .287. So, we cannot reject the null hypothesis.

    Name of Presenter: Pavan Kumar S Page 2 of 4


    Date of Presentation: 19/08/2021
    Topic: Foundations of Statistics and Probability for Data Science
    Sub-Topics: F distribution

    QUESTION 2 :

    A laptop computer maker uses battery packs supplied by two companies, A and B.
    While both brands have the same average battery life between charges (LBC), the
    computer maker seems to receive more complaints about shorter LBC than
    expected for battery packs supplied by company B. The computer maker suspects
    that this could be caused by higher variance in LBC for Brand B. To check that, ten
    new battery packs from each brand are randomly selected, installed on the same
    models of laptops, and the laptops are allowed to run until the battery packs are
    completely discharged. The following are the observed LBCs in hours.

    Brand A = 3.2, 3.4, 2.8, 3, 3, 3, 2.8, 2.9, 3, 3


    Brand B = 3, 3.5, 2.9, 3.1, 2.3, 2, 3, 2.9, 3, 4.1
    Test whether the variance of both the brands are similar.

    Ho : s12(A) = s22 (B)

    Ha : s12(A) ≠ s22 (B)

    Significance level, 𝛂 = 0.05

    F = s12/s2 2 = 0.03211111/0.3306667 = 0.09711022


    Critical F-Value ( 0.025, 0.975 ) = [ 0.2483859, 4.0259942 ]

    Name of Presenter: Pavan Kumar S Page 3 of 4


    Date of Presentation: 19/08/2021
    Topic: Foundations of Statistics and Probability for Data Science
    Sub-Topics: F distribution

    The test statistic falls in the lower rejection region. Hence, we reject the null
    hypothesis.
    P ( f < 0.09711022 ) = 0.0009304913
    The p score is smaller than significance value * 1/2 i.e. 0.025. Hence, we reject the
    null hypothesis.
    Therefore, Variances of both Brands are not similar. Variance of Brand B is higher
    than Brand A.

    Name of Presenter: Pavan Kumar S Page 4 of 4


    Date of Presentation: 19/08/2021

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