Biomeasurement 2e Calculation Sheet by Toby Carter & Dawn Hawkins

Paired t-test
STEP 1

STEP 2

State your Null Hypothesis (H0)

e.g. H0 = There is no difference between the populations from which two related samples come.
Choose a critical significance level (a)
a=

STEP 3

STEP 4

0.05

Calculate the test statistic

t =

2.226

df =

15

Reject or accept your null hypothesis

See Box 8.3 Page 164

Critical Value of t

t =

Which is greatest?

Therefore

2.131

Calculated t

Data
Sample 1 Sample 2
72
55.5
62.35
43.8
55.77
66.8
59.98
68
51.6
57.88
61.48
61.9
52.57
45.4
52.5
56.67
56.43
73.3
60.13
77.5
48.6
63.53
42.9
54.5
53.5
55.8
70.43
91.1
47.1
64.05
50.08
71.4

Calculation Space

A
B
Sum
df

-6.86
16
-109.71
15

D
16.5
18.55
-11.03
-8.02
-6.28
-0.42
7.17
-4.17
-16.87
-17.37
-14.93
-11.6
-2.3
-20.67
-16.95
-21.32

Mean
n
C

D - D
23.35688
25.40688
-4.173125
-1.163125
0.576875
6.436875
14.02688
2.686875
-10.01313
-10.51313
-8.073125
-4.743125
4.556875
-13.81313
-10.09313
-14.46313

142.29
16
2276.64

D - D

545.5436
645.5093
17.41497
1.35286
0.332785
41.43336
196.7532
7.219297
100.2627
110.5258
65.17535
22.49723
20.76511
190.8024
101.8712
209.182

REJECT Null Hypothesis

Hawkins & Carter 2009

226894250.xls.ms_office; Using critical-value tables

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Biomeasurement 2e Calculation Sheet by Toby Carter & Dawn Hawkins

Paired t-test
STEP 1

State your Null Hypothesis (H0)

e.g. H0 = There is no difference between the populations from which two related samples come.

STEP 2

Choose a critical significance level (a)

a=

STEP 3

Calculate the test statistic (and P value)

P=

STEP 4

0.05

0.042

Reject or accept your null hypothesis

See Box 8.4 Page 164

Which is greatest?
Therefore

Critical significance level

REJECT Null Hypothesis

Hawkins & Carter 2009

Data
Sample 1 Sample 2
72
55.5
62.35
43.8
55.77
66.8
59.98
68
51.6
57.88
61.48
61.9
52.57
45.4
52.5
56.67
56.43
73.3
60.13
77.5
48.6
63.53
42.9
54.5
53.5
55.8
70.43
91.1
47.1
64.05
50.08
71.4

Calculation Space

Hawkins (2009) Biomeasurement . Chapter 8, Box 8.2, Page 164

Paired t-Test

D n

t=

D - D

n -1
n -1

Degrees of Freedom =

Where

= mean of differences

= size of sample

Breakdown of Equation into Components

A=D

t=

B=n
C=

D - D

AB
C
B -1

Hawkins & Carter 2009

Equations

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