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Find the Expectation of an F-distribution with degrees of freedom \( \gamma_1 \) = 7 and \( \gamma_2 \)…

The expectation is 4/3. For an F-distribution with denominator degrees of freedom greater than 2, the mean is the denominator degrees of freedom divided by that number minus…

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Find the Expectation of an F-distribution with degrees of freedom γ1 \gamma_1 = 7 and γ2 \gamma_2 = 8.

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The expectation is 4/3. For an F-distribution with denominator degrees of freedom greater than 2, the mean is the denominator degrees of freedom divided by that number minus 2. Thus the mean is 8/(8 − 2) = 8/6 = 4/3.

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