I need to add 2 columns of elements such as car hire and children with the values assigned to employees within the employee record. How can I do that? I need to add the cost center column to each employee and as far as i know i can get the cost center from the following query:.
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Because two separate samples are taken to compute an F-score and the samples do not have to be the same size, there are two separate degrees of freedom — one for each sample. For each sample, the number of degrees of freedom is n -1, one less than the sample size.
Finding the critical F-value for left tails requires another step, which is outlined in the interactive Excel template in Figure 6.
Figure 6. F-tables are virtually always printed as one-tail tables, showing the critical F-value that separates the right tail from the rest of the distribution. In most statistical applications of the F-distribution, only the right tail is of interest, because most applications are testing to see if the variance from a certain source is greater than the variance from another source, so the researcher is interested in finding if the F-score is greater than one.
In the test of equal variances, the researcher is interested in finding out if the F-score is close to one, so that either a large F-score or a small F-score would lead the researcher to conclude that the variances are not equal.
For purists, and occasional instances, the left-tail critical value can be computed fairly easily. The left-tail critical value for x , y degrees of freedom df is simply the inverse of the right-tail table critical value for y , x df.
Divide one by 2. That means that 5 per cent of the F-distribution for 10 , 20 df is below the critical value of. Putting all of this together, here is how to conduct the test to see if two samples come from populations with the same variance. First, collect two samples and compute the sample variance of each, s 1 2 and s 2 2. Lin Xiang, a young banker, has moved from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she has recently been promoted and made the manager of City Bank, a newly established bank in Winnipeg with branches across the Prairies.
After a few weeks, she has discovered that maintaining the correct number of tellers seems to be more difficult than it was when she was a branch assistant manager in Saskatoon. Some days, the lines are very long, but on other days, the tellers seem to have little to do.
She wonders if the number of customers at her new branch is simply more variable than the number of customers at the branch where she used to work. Because tellers work for a whole day or half a day morning or afternoon , she collects the following data on the number of transactions in a half day from her branch and the branch where she used to work:.
Following the rule to put the larger variance in the numerator, so that she saves a step, she finds:. Using the interactive Excel template in Figure 6. Because her F-calculated score from Figure 6. She will need to look further to solve her staffing problem. 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 that is used in many multivariate tests and procedures.
This seems wrong — we will test a hypothesis about means by analyzing variance. It is not wrong, but rather a really clever insight that some statistician had years ago. This idea — looking at variance to find out about differences in means — is the basis for much of the multivariate statistics used by researchers today. The ideas behind ANOVA are used when we look for relationships between two or more variables, the big reason we use multivariate statistics.
Testing to see if three or more samples come from populations with the same mean can often be a sort of multivariate exercise. If the three samples came from three different factories or were subject to different treatments, we are effectively seeing if there is a difference in the results because of different factories or treatments — is there a relationship between factory or treatment and the outcome? Think about three samples. If the samples were combined, you could compute a grand mean and a total variance around that grand mean.
You could also find the mean and sample variance within each of the groups. Finally, you could take the three sample means, and find the variance between them. ANOVA is based on analyzing where the total variance comes from. When these distances are gathered together and turned into variances, you can see that if the population means are different, the variance between the sample means is likely to be greater than the variance within the samples.
By this point in the book, it should not surprise you to learn that statisticians have found that if three or more samples are taken from a normal population, and the variance between the samples is divided by the variance within the samples, a sampling distribution formed by doing that over and over will have a known shape. In this case, it will be distributed like F with m -1, n — m df, where m is the number of samples and n is the size of the m samples altogether.
Variance between is found by:. It is simply a summing of one of those sources of variance across all of the observations. Double sums need to be handled with care. First operating on the inside or second sum sign find the mean of each sample and the sum of the squares of the distances of each x in the sample from its mean. Second operating on the outside sum sign , add together the results from each of the samples. The strategy for conducting a one-way analysis of variance is simple.
Gather m samples. Compute the variance between the samples, the variance within the samples, and the ratio of between to within, yielding the F-score.
If the F-score is less than one, or not much greater than one, the variance between the samples is no greater than the variance within the samples and the samples probably come from populations with the same mean.
If the F-score is much greater than one, the variance between is probably the source of most of the variance in the total sample, and the samples probably come from populations with different means. The details of conducting a one-way ANOVA fall into three categories: 1 writing hypotheses, 2 keeping the calculations organized, and 3 using the F-tables. The null hypothesis is that all of the population means are equal, and the alternative is that not all of the means are equal.
Quite often, though two hypotheses are really needed for completeness, only H o is written:. Keeping the calculations organized is important when you are finding the variance within. Remember that the variance within is found by squaring, and then summing, the distance between each observation and the mean of its sample.
Though different people do the calculations differently, I find the best way to keep it all straight is to find the sample means, find the squared distances in each of the samples, and then add those together. It is also important to keep the calculations organized in the final computing of the F-score.
If you remember that the goal is to see if the variance between is large, then its easy to remember to divide variance between by variance within. Using the F-tables is the third detail. Though the null hypothesis is that all of the means are equal, you are testing that hypothesis by seeing if the variance between is less than or equal to the variance within.
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