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Please help by giving substantive definitions to help me understand the following statistics terms.

F distribution
F test
independent sample
paired comparison
paired samples
paired t test
pooled estimate
pooled proportion
pooled variance
two-sample tests
Type I error and Type II error.

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F distribution - is used in variance calculations. It has two degrees of freedom and is skewed towards the left. It never goes into the negative region.
F test: is used in test of variance, Regression and ANOVA
independent sample: is one in which the data is not influenced by, or ...

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