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T-test
a basic test that is limited to two groups assesses whether the means of two groups are statistically different from each other gives an indication of the separateness of two sets of measurements
T-test assumes:
a normal distribution
The average height of 3rd year high school students in a certain school is 1.52m. A random sample of 26 students were taken and were found to have a mean height of 1.56m with a standard deviation of 0.11m. Are the 26 students in the sample significantly taller than the rest? Test at 0.05 level.
solution:
the formula is:
Analysis of Variance
used to test the significance of difference between means of 3 or more sets of data simultaneously
provides a statistical test of whether or not the means of several groups are all equal
One-way ANOVA
used when there is only a single categorical factor the purpose is to find out whether data from several groups have a common mean
of the model is
Multi-factor ANOVA
used when there is more than one categorical factor arranged in a crossed pattern
used whenever there are both crossed and nested factors, when some factors are fixed and some are random, and when both categorical and quantitative factors are present