f dis·tri·bu·tion

the distribution of the ratio of two independent quantities each of which is distributed like a variance in normally distributed samples. So named in honor of the English statistician and geneticist R.A. Fisher.

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In particular, Abramowitz and Stegun [1] reproduced the tables of percentiles of chi-square, t-, and F-distributions from the 1954 edition of Pearson and Hartley [2].

A survey of tables of probability distributions

Given that the random errors in the indirect forms (12) have the same variances for all industries, the appropriate test statistic has F-distribution with degrees of freedom 9 and 26.

Under the assumptions of the VES production function (11), it follows that if these two parameters are zero, then the appropriate test statistic has F-distribution with degrees of freedom 2 and n-4, where n is the number of sample firms in the industry involved.

Estimation of elasticities of substitution for CES and VES production functions using firm-level data for food-processing industries in Pakistan

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