The Excel F.INV.RT function calculates the inverse of the (right-tailed) F Probability Distribution for a specified probability.
The function is new to Excel 2010 and so is not available in earlier versions of Excel. However the F.Inv.Rt function is simply a new version of the Finv function, which is available in earlier versions of Excel.
The syntax of the F.Inv.Rt function is:
Where the function arguments are:
|probability||-||The probability (between 0 and 1) at which to evaluate the inverse F Probability Distribution.|
|deg_freedom1||-||An integer specifying the numerator degrees of freedom.|
|deg_freedom2||-||An integer specifying the denominator degrees of freedom.|
If either deg_freedom1 or deg_freedom2 are decimal numbers, these are truncated to integers by Excel.
The above chart on the right shows the inverse of the right-tailed F Probability Distribution with the numerator degrees of freedom equal to 1 and the denominator degrees of freedom equal to 2.
If you want to calculate the value of this function for a probability value of 0.2, this can be done using the Excel F.Inv.Rt function, as follows:
This gives the result 3.555555556.
Further details and examples of the Excel F.Inv.Rt function are provided on the Microsoft Office website.
If you get an error from the Excel F.Inv.Rt function this is likely to be one of the following:
|#VALUE!||-||Occurs if any of the supplied arguments are non-numeric.|