F.TEST()/FTEST()
Syntax. F.TEST(array1,array2)
Definition. This function returns the test statistics of an f-test. An f-test returns the one-tailed probability that the variances in array1 and array2 are not significantly different.
Arguments
array1 (required). The first array or range of data
array2 (required). The second array or range of data
Note
Arguments can be numbers, names, arrays, or references containing numbers.
If an array or reference argument contains text, logical values, or empty cells, those values are ignored. However, cells with the value 0 are included.
If the number of data points in array1 or array2 is less than 2 or if the variance of array1 or array2 is 0, F.TEST() returns the #DIV/0! error value.
Background. Use this function ...
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