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Topic: Paired Sample T-Test & Independent Sample T-Test
Topic: Paired Sample T-Test & Independent Sample T-Test
EXAMPLE EXAMPLE
ONE GROUP OF STUDENTS MEASURING THE PRETEST TWO GROUP OF STUDENTS MEASURING SCORE IN FACE
AND POST TEST EXAM SCORE. TO FACE AND ONLINE CLASS.
• An instructor gives one group of • We have students who speak English as their
students an exam and the next day gives first language and students who do not. All
students take a reading test. Our two groups
students a different exam on the same are the native English speakers and the non-
material. The instructor wants to know if native speakers. Our measurements are the
the two exams are equally difficult. We test scores. We want to know if the mean score
for the population of native English speakers is
calculate the difference in exam scores different from the people who learned English
for each student. as a second language.
EXAM 1 STUDENTS
(NATIVE ENGLISH
SPEAKER) READING
STUDENTS TEST
STUDENTS
EXAM 2 (ENGLISH AS SECOND
LANGUAGE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpCA2pdyR8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUUfBWlziIU&t=51s
PAIRED T-TEST
The first thing to note is the difference between the means in the pretest and posttest conditions.
As you can see above, the average PEF is nearly 25 L/min higher in the posttest condition .
This is where the paired samples t test comes into play. We’ve got a t value of -9.272 (see the Paired Samples Test table), which gives us a p-value – or 2-tailed significance value – of .000.
This is going to be a significant result for any plausible alpha level.
A standard alpha level is .05, and .000 is smaller than .05, so we’re able to reject the null hypothesis which asserts there is no significant difference between the PEF scores in pretest and posttest conditions.
To put this another way, the difference between the means in the two conditions is extreme enough that it is very unlikely to have occurred merely due to chance, therefore,
we can conclude that it is a real difference.
INDEPENDENT T-TEST
The first thing to note is the mean values in the Group Statistics table.
Here you can see that on average people who own dogs throw frisbees further than people who don’t own dogs (54.92 metres as against only 40.12 metres).
SPSS is reporting a t value of -3.320 and a 2-tailed p-value of .003. This would almost always be considered a significant result (standard alpha levels are .05 and .01).
Therefore, we can be confident in rejecting the null hypothesis that holds that there is no difference between the frisbee throwing abilities of dog owners and non-owners