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Wykorzystanie testu t dla pojedynczej próby we wnioskowaniu statystycznym
The Use of t-Test for a Single Study at Statistical Inference

Author(s): Anna Koziorowska, Wiesława Malska
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Oświatowe FOSZE
Keywords: statistical hypothesis; test of significance; Student-t distribution; the level of significance; verification of statistical hypotheses

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents an analysis of the applicability of the t-test to verify the hypothesis that the value of the average statistical features (quantitative) of the general population is equal to a certain hypothetical value. For this purpose, there was used the t-test for a single sample available in STATISTICA. In the test for the value of the average there are used two test statistics, the choice of which depends on the size (number of) a random sample that we have. There are shown in the paper exemplary calculations using the significance test in t-test module for a single sample. Choosing of the right test is a basic requirement of proper conduct of statistical hypothesis verification process.

  • Issue Year: VI/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 323-327
  • Page Count: 5