Introduction to The F Distribution and the F-Ratio

What you’ll learn to do: Understand how to calculate an F-ratio or F-statistic

A close up picture of tomatoes.Is the average tomato yield different across various fertilizers? How does the variability of yield compare across fertilizers and how does the variability in yield compare within a single type of fertilizer? Answering these questions is done through calculating an F-ratio, which is the test statistic used in a one-way ANOVA.