On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Peter wrote:
> Not fully sure I am studying the Kruskal-Wallis test this term. It is
> a chi-square test so different from an F test which is what we use in
> ANOVA.
Not that different, but yes; ...
> I think an F test is a ratio of two chi-squared distributions.
Close. Ratio of two chi-square distributions, each divided by
its number of degrees of freedom.
It follows, although it may not be self-evident, that a
chi-square distribution with k degrees of freedom, divided by k, is
equal to an F distribution with k and infinite d.f.
> Or maybe your confidence limits are for another distribution.
The original post to which you were responding did not mention
confidence limits at all; it dealt with power analysis.
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