What test can be used to determine if two samples have similar variances?

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Analysis of Variance, or ANOVA is the term used for this type of test. A specific example is the F-test which can be used to test if the variances of two populations are equal. The statistic we define to test this is the ratio of the two variances

F= S1²/S2²

Where s1 and s2 are the sample variances. The further this value deviates from 1, the more likely that the underlying variances are actually different. The F-distribution is used to quantify this likelihood for differing sample sizes and the confidence or significance we would like the answer to hold.

We define Fα,N1−1,N2−1 as the critical value of the F distribution with N1−1 and N2−1 degrees of freedom and a significance level of α. This test can be a two-tailed test or a one-tailed test. The two-tailed version tests against the alternative that the variances are not equal.

The two tailed test is arranged as follows. Reject the null hypothesis if:

F<F1−α/2,N1−1,N2−1

orF>Fα/2,N1−1,N2−1

The one-tailed versions only test in one direction, that is the variance from the first population is either greater than or less than (but not both) the second population variance.

Analysis of Variance, or ANOVA is the term used for this type of test. A specific example is the F-test which can be used to test the similarity of variances of two samples.

Nipun Maiti answered 2 years ago

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