Worked Examples
Let A1 denote a set obtained by taking 6 random samples out of a larger set:
and let A2 denote a second set obtained similarly:
These could be, for example, the weights of screws that were chosen out of a bucket.
We will carry out tests of the null hypothesis that the means of the populations from which the two samples were taken are equal.
The difference between the two sample means, each denoted by, which appears in the numerator for all the two-sample testing approaches discussed above, is
The sample standard deviations for the two samples are approximately 0.05 and 0.11, respectively. For such small samples, a test of equality between the two population variances would not be very powerful. Since the sample sizes are equal, the two forms of the two sample t-test will perform similarly in this example.
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