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Re: inverse values for the F distribution
- From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
- To: Rajarshi Guha <rajarshi at presidency dot com>
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:22:49 -0500
- Subject: Re: inverse values for the F distribution
- References: <1062525833.5264.3.camel@ra.chem.psu.edu>
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:03:53PM -0400, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> Hello,
> I see in the manual and source that there are no functions to get
> values for the inverse F distribution? Is there any reason why these
> functions dont exist? In the abscence of this function is there any way
> to get a critical value for an F test statistic?
That is typically done via root-finding -- use the p-value function in a
loop over critical values til you are only \epsilon away.
Dirk
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