Re: program or package for F probability?

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From: David Nichols
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 05:14

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In article <1bucksINN6ab@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> rbatt@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Richard Batt) writes:
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>Does anyone know of a major stats package or a PC or Mac program that
>will give the exact probability associated with an F value and its
>corresponding degrees of freedom?

SPSS versions 4 and later other than PC+ (so here, this means Mac) have
a funtion in the MATRIX procedure called FCDF that calculates cumulative
distribution values or tail probabilities for central F distributions
(there are also others for t, normal and chi-square distributions).

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