Practice (e.g., Meehl, 1990), $F$ ratios $< 1.0$ are reported quiteįrequently in the literature. Some authors suggest that the null hypothesis is rarely true in Ratio is $1.0$ (more precisely: $N/(N-2)$) in a completely balancedįixed-effects ANOVA, when the null hypothesis is true. Standard statistics texts indicate that the expected value of the $F$ Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 3(1), 35–46. Is it possible for the test statistic to be less than one? When the null hypothesis is true, it is certainly possible just as in the previous example where it was possible for the test statistic to be negative even if the MEAN of the data is zero.Īfter looking in a folder I haven't looked for years (like real folder and not computer folder) I found this paper which may be of interest for this question: The null hypothesis dictates that you use the central F distribution, and the alternative hypothesis, forcing the distribution to the right when the alternative hypothesis is true means that all of the Type I error probability must be located on the right. The right is because of the alternative hypothesis in the one-way ANOVA. The reason that the rejection region for the F-statistic is on If you were to get a negative sample mean in your experiment, you would not question the veracity of the experiment. It is not impossible for you to get a sample mean that is negative, albeit with a small Your rejection region of the null hypothesis is on the right of zero. If you are investigating a process that possibly has a MEAN of zero, but could not have a mean of less than zero, then you might be interested in performing the following testĪt a level alpha. The issue here is that hypothesis testing involves a null AND an alternative hypotheis, and therefore the rejection region is determined by both hypotheses.Ĭonsider a simpler example. Note that the blue distribution does include values less than one, yet they are very unlikely. The blue distribution is the distribution of F when H0 is false given various assumptions. The red distribution is the distribution of F when H0 is true. The following graphic extracted from the G-Power3 demonstrates the idea given various assumptions. The larger the population effect size is (in combination with sample size), the more the F distribution will move to the right, and the less likely we will be to get a value less than one. When the null hypothesis is false, it is still possible to get an F ratio less than one.
If we assume the null hypothesis is true we get one distribution, and if we assume that it is false with various assumptions about effect size, sample size, and so forth we get another distribution. The F ratio is drawn from a distribution. However, the point is that both the numerator and denominator are random variables, and so is the F ratio. When the null hypothesis is false and there are group differences between the means, the expected value of the numerator will be larger than the denominator.Īs such the expected value of the F ratio will be larger than under the null hypothesis, and will also more likely be larger than one. As a consequence, the expected value of the F ratio when the null hypothesis is true is also close to one (actually it's not exactly one, because of the properties of expected values of ratios). In this case I set the Shaded_Region_Start (start of the shaded region) to the critical_value but I'm not totally sure the correct value you expect to use from your script.When the null hypothesis of no group differences is true, then the expected value of the numerator and denominator of the F ratio will be equal. The area() function is then used to shade the region corresponding to these index coordinates of the plot. This logical array, Region_Indices is then used to matrix index x and fdist arrays corresponding to the plot. Here a logical array named Region_Indices is created based on a condition that is specified as a range. Not sure which variable determines the start of the shading but here is something that might be similar to what you're going for. Shading a Specific Region of a Plot Using a Logical Array % shading rejection region <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< not workingĪrea(x(critical_value:max(observations)),fdist(critical_value:max(observations)),'basevalue',0,'FaceColor',grey)
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However i cannot figure out how to do so and anything i tried doesn't seem to work. I am required to plot an f-distribution for the given degrees of freedom v1 and v2 determined from 4 samples and shade the rejection region for the given alpha(like in the picture below)
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