The F-test is designed to test if two population variances are equal. It compares the ratio of two variances. If the variances are equal, the ratio of the variances will be 1.
The F-test provides the basis for ANOVA which can compare two or more groups.
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ANOVA is an inferential statistic used to test if 3 or more population means are equal or to test the affects of interactions.
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Parametric and non-parametric statistics.Another division is descriptive and inferential statistics.Descriptive and Inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics describes a population (e.g. mean, median, variance, standard deviation, percentages). Inferential infers some information about a population (e.g. hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, ANOVA).
Null hypothesis of a one-way ANOVA is that the means are equal. Alternate hypothesis a one-way ANOVA is that at least one of the means are different.
A t-test is a inferential statistic. Other inferential statistics are confidence interval, margin of error, and ANOVA. An inferential statistic infers something about a population. A descriptive statistic describes a population. Descriptive statistics include percentages, means, variance, and regression.