FisherDistribution Class

public sealed class FisherDistribution : ContinuousDistribution

Public NotInheritable Class FisherDistribution
	Inherits ContinuousDistribution

public ref class FisherDistribution sealed : public ContinuousDistribution

[<SealedAttribute>]
type FisherDistribution = 
    class
        inherit ContinuousDistribution
    end

Inheritance

Object    UnivariateDistribution    ContinuousDistribution    FisherDistribution

The ratio of the variances of two sets of normally distributed variables is distributed according to Fisher's F-distribution.

Many test statistics are ratios of variances and are therefore distributed according to the F-distribution. These include the F-test (FisherFTest(IReadOnlyCollectionDouble, IReadOnlyCollectionDouble)), the test for non-triviality of linear (LinearRegression(IReadOnlyListDouble, IReadOnlyListDouble)), non-linear (PolynomialRegression(IReadOnlyListDouble, IReadOnlyListDouble, Int32)), and multi-linear (MultiLinearRegression(IReadOnlyListDouble, IReadOnlyListDouble)) regressions, and ANOVA tests (OneWayAnovaTest(IReadOnlyCollectionDouble)).

The Fisher distribution is related to the Beta distribution (BetaDistribution) by a simple variable transformation.

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