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Sampttest – Texas Instruments TI-84 User Manual

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Chapter 13: Inferential Statistics and Distributions

347

2-SampTTest

2-SampTTest

2-SampTTest

2-SampTTest

2-SampTTest

(two-sample

t

test; item

4

) tests the equality of the means of two

populations (

m

1

and

m

2

) based on independent samples when neither population

standard deviation (

s

1

or

s

2

) is known. The null hypothesis H

0

:

m

1

=

m

2

is tested against

one of the alternatives below.

H

a

:

m

1

ƒm

2

(

m

1:

ƒm

2

)

H

a

:

m

1

<

m

2

(

m

1:<

m

2

)

H

a

:

m

1

>

m

2

(

m

1:>

m

2

)

In the example:

Drawn

results:

Data

Stats