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  1. Hypothesis Test: Difference in Means

    Hypothesis Test: Difference Between Means. This lesson explains how to conduct a hypothesis test for the difference between two means. The test procedure, called the two-sample t-test, is appropriate when the following conditions are met: The sampling method for each sample is simple random sampling. The samples are independent.

  2. 10.29: Hypothesis Test for a Difference in Two Population Means (1 of 2)

    Step 3: Assess the evidence. If the conditions are met, then we calculate the t-test statistic. The t-test statistic has a familiar form. Since the null hypothesis assumes there is no difference in the population means, the expression (μ 1 - μ 2) is always zero.. As we learned in "Estimating a Population Mean," the t-distribution depends on the degrees of freedom (df).

  3. 7.3

    Hypothesis Test for the Difference of Paired Means, \(\mu_d\) In this section, we will develop the hypothesis test for the mean difference for paired samples. As we learned in the previous section, if we consider the difference rather than the two samples, then we are back in the one-sample mean scenario.

  4. Two Sample t test for Comparing Two Means

    Requirements: Two normally distributed but independent populations, σ is unknown. Hypothesis test. Formula: . where and are the means of the two samples, Δ is the hypothesized difference between the population means (0 if testing for equal means), s 1 and s 2 are the standard deviations of the two samples, and n 1 and n 2 are the sizes of the two samples. The number of degrees of freedom for ...

  5. T Test Overview: How to Use & Examples

    Two-Sample T Test Hypotheses. Null hypothesis (H 0): Two population means are equal (µ 1 = µ 2). Alternative hypothesis (H A): Two population means are not equal (µ 1 ≠ µ 2). Again, when the p-value is less than or equal to your significance level, reject the null hypothesis. The difference between the two means is statistically significant.

  6. Hypothesis Test for a Difference in Two Population Means (1 of 2)

    Using the Hypothesis Test for a Difference in Two Population Means. The general steps of this hypothesis test are the same as always. As expected, the details of the conditions for use of the test and the test statistic are unique to this test (but similar in many ways to what we have seen before.) Step 1: Determine the hypotheses.

  7. An Introduction to t Tests

    An Introduction to t Tests | Definitions, Formula and Examples. Published on January 31, 2020 by Rebecca Bevans.Revised on June 22, 2023. A t test is a statistical test that is used to compare the means of two groups. It is often used in hypothesis testing to determine whether a process or treatment actually has an effect on the population of interest, or whether two groups are different from ...

  8. Two-sample t test for difference of means

    Given data from two samples, we can do a signficance test to compare the sample means with a test statistic and p-value, and determine if there is enough evidence to suggest a difference between the two population means. ... as mentioned in hypothesis testing for difference in proportions)?

  9. 9.1: Comparison of Two Population Means- Large, Independent Samples

    Hypothesis Testing. Hypotheses concerning the relative sizes of the means of two populations are tested using the same critical value and \(p\)-value procedures that were used in the case of a single population.

  10. 10.2: Comparing Two Independent Population Means

    The test comparing two independent population means with unknown and possibly unequal population standard deviations is called the Aspin-Welch \(t\)-test. The degrees of freedom formula we will see later was developed by Aspin-Welch. When we developed the hypothesis test for the mean and proportions we began with the Central Limit Theorem.