A.19 Snedecor’s F distribution
X has an F distribution on 
and 
degrees of freedom, denoted
if X has the same distribution as
where W1 and W2 are independent and
Equivalently, X has density
The mean and variance are
The mode is
If 
, then
Conversely, if 
then
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