{"id":142,"date":"2018-03-11T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/11\/how-to-perform-fishers-test-f-test-example-question-12\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T13:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T12:46:04","slug":"how-to-perform-fishers-test-f-test-example-question-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/how-to-perform-fishers-test-f-test-example-question-12\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Perform Fisher’s Test (F-Test) – Example Question 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
The F-Test one of the most basic and easy hypothesis testing to understand and perform.
This tutorial explains how to perform Fisher’s test in statistics. <\/p>\n

Content<\/b>
In this lesson we would consider the following topics<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. What is F-Test<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Procedure for F-test<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Sample Question<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Solution ot Sample Question<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Final Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/b><\/p>\n

    1. What is F Test<\/b><\/h3>\n

    F-Test stands for Fisher’s test. Generally, this is the test used to Compare to variances.<\/p>\n

    <\/b><\/p>\n

    2. Procedure of F-Test<\/b><\/h3>\n

    <\/b>
    The step by step procedure is given below. Although in solving a typical problem, we may have more steps if we further break down a step into two.<\/p>\n

    Step 1: Set up the null and alternate hypothesis<\/p>\n

    Step 2: Calculate the variaces of the two groups<\/p>\n

    Step 3: Calculate the F-Statistic<\/p>\n

    Step 4: Look up the F value from Statistical Tables<\/p>\n

    Step 5: Draw you conclusion<\/p>\n

    <\/b><\/p>\n

    3. An Example (Question 12)<\/b><\/h3>\n

    In a packaging plant, a machine packs cartons with jars. It is supposed that a new machine would pack faster on the average than the machine currently used. To test the hypothesis, the time it takes each machine to pack ten carons are recorded. The result in seconds is as follows.<\/p>\n

    New Machine: 42,41,41.3,41.8,42.4,42.8,43.2,42.3,41.8,42.7
    Old Machine:  42.7,43.6,43.8,43.3,42.5,43.5,43.1,41.7,44,44.1<\/p>\n

    Perform an F-test to determine if the null hypothesis should be accepted.<\/p>\n

    <\/b><\/p>\n

    4. Solution Steps<\/b><\/h3>\n

    As usual, we need to understand the question to be able to set up the null and the alternate hypothesis.
    The null hypotheisis is what is currently believed and we want to test if we would continue to accept it or not.
    From the question, the current believe is that the new machine is better. Which means that the means of the two machines are different.
    The alternate hypothesis is the opposite of the null hypothesis. So let’s state them<\/p>\n

    Step 1: State the null and althernate hypothesis<\/b>
    H0<\/sub>:<\/b> \u03bc1<\/sub> \u2260 \u03bc2<\/sub>
    Ha<\/sub><\/b>: \u03bc1<\/sub> = \u03bc2<\/sub>
    Note<\/b>: The null hypothesis says that the new machine is better. If this is the case, then the mean of the two samples would not be equal. That is the null hypothesis<\/p>\n

    Step 2: Calculate the means of the two groups<\/b>
    We would use MS Excel. So we need to transfer this data to MS Excel, so we can easily calculate the needed values.
    Watch a  video on how to transfer this data to Excel<\/a><\/p>\n

    If you have transfered this data to excel, you can easily find the means using the AVERAGE() function in excel. You will have a table like the on shown in Figure 1.<\/p>\n

     <\/a><\/div>\n
    Table 1 <\/div>\n

    Step 3: Calculate Deviations from the means for the two groups<\/b>
    The deviations are gotten by subtracting the mean from each of the values. Do this for the two groups. After doing this the excel file would be as shown in Figure 2 with the D column calculated.<\/p>\n

     <\/a><\/div>\n
    Table 2 <\/div>\n

    Step 4: Calculate the Squared Deviations<\/b>
    This step is very easy. Just take the square of the deviationss<\/p>\n

    Step 5: Take sum of the Squared Deviations<\/b>
    In this step, you take the sum of the Squared Deviation (D^2) column. If you have done this correctly, your excel sheet would look like the following.<\/p>\n

     <\/a><\/div>\n
    Table 3 <\/div>\n

    Step 6: Calculate the Variances of the two Groups<\/b>
    We would calculate this by hand using the values from the excel sheet. Then we also calculate this value automatically using excel formulas. The caluclation by hand is given below:<\/p>\n

    <\/a><\/div>\n

    Remember<\/span>: The variance is the square of the standard deviation.  The is why we have s in the formula(for Standard deviation)<\/p>\n

    Step 7: Calculate the F-Statistic<\/b>
    The F statistic is simply gotten by dividing the Variance 1 by the Variance 2. This given by the forumula:<\/p>\n

    F = Var2\/Var1<\/p>\n

    You can calculate this by hand and also using the excel sheet we have been working on. At this point, the excel sheet would look like shown in the Table 4<\/p>\n

     <\/a><\/div>\n
    Table 4 <\/div>\n

    Step 8: Look up Critical Value of F from table<\/b>
    In the statistical table, find Table of F distribution.
    Get the statistical table from here<\/a><\/p>\n

    Degree of freedom = n -1 = 9
    \u03b1  = 0.05<\/p>\n

    The value  of  from the table for 9 degree of freedom and 0.05 significance is found to be 3.1789. This is written as:<\/p>\n

    K0.05<\/sub> = 3.1789 <\/p>\n

    This value is the critical value of F<\/p>\n

    Step 9: State you conclusion<\/b>
    Since the calculated value of F(absolute value) is less than the critical value of F, we accept the null hypothesis.<\/p>\n

    <\/b><\/p>\n

    5. Final Notes<\/b><\/h3>\n

    Performing Fishers Test is quite easy. I however you have any issue following this lesson, let me know in the comment form by the left side of this page.<\/p>\n

    You can also download the excel sheet for this question from here<\/a>. Then I would advice you try your hands on many other hypothesis testing examples listed here(Hypothesis Testing Examples).<\/a><\/p>\n

    Watch the Vidoe lesson here <\/a><\/p>\n

    Thank you
    Find me on Youtube.<\/a><\/p>\n

    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The F-Test one of the most basic and easy hypothesis testing to understand and perform.This tutorial explains how to perform Fisher’s test in statistics. ContentIn … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[223],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}