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The importance of ANOVA

22 October, 2015 - 13:03

A more important use of the F-distribution is in analyzing variance to see if three or more samples come from populations with equal means. This is an important statistical test, not so much because it is frequently used, but because it is a bridge between univariate statistics and multivariate statistics and because the strategy it uses is one which is used in many multivariate tests and procedures.