ESS210B
Prof. Jin-Yi Yu
Two kinds of Two-Sample t-Test
qFor samples come from distributions with different standard deviations, having values of s1 and s2. This is called “unpooled two-sample t-statistic”:
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qIf both distributions have the same standard deviation, then we can “pool” the estimates of the standard deviation from the two samples into a single estimate: